Matteo
Matteo was given to 2,455 boys in 2025, #146 among boys’ names; 33,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,800 Americans named Matteo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matteo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matteo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Matteo is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Matthew” Its etymology gives the sense “gift of the Lord” (literally).
From Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of the Lord”).
/matˈtɛ.o/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matteo?
#146 among boys’ names, 2025
Matteo rose from #191 in 2015 to #146 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 1.1 to 1.4 per 1,000.
2,589 babies in 2024, the peak
Matteo peaked in 2024, when 2,589 boys were given it, #138 among boys’ names. The 2,455 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,455 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,589 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 2,517 | #144 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,048 | #183 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,356 | #165 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 2,223 | #173 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 2,161 | #179 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 2,095 | #196 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 2,082 | #188 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,387 | #169 | 1.3 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,171 | #191 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 836 | #374 | 0.44 |
| 2013 | 798 | #377 | 0.42 |
| 2012 | 707 | #411 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 751 | #385 | 0.40 |
| 2010 | 642 | #429 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 600 | #455 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 473 | #557 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 392 | #624 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 381 | #623 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 306 | #682 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 277 | #699 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 244 | #738 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 217 | #796 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 175 | #899 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 176 | #888 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 155 | #939 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 151 | #936 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,156 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,236 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,373 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,270 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,237 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,743 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,387 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,448 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,576 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,208 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,171 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,227 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,639 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,050 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,165 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,068 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,959 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,648 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,824 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,023 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,646 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,028 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,561 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,400 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,863 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,977 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,442 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 19 | #1,846 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,288 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,129 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,898 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,177 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,914 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matteo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matteo has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 97 years of records.
Girls and boys named Matteo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matteo, and how old are they?
32,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 33,499 Americans ever recorded as Matteo. The median Matteo alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 17,236 people named Matteo (37 women and girls, 17,199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 404 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26,500 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Matteo born?
The states with the most babies named Matteo are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 415 | #97 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 310 | #126 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 270 | #72 | 1.3× |
| New York | 195 | #92 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 112 | #86 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 85 | #142 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #162 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 73 | #95 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 72 | #121 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 50 | #253 | 0.5× |
Where Matteo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Matteo is most over-represented in California: since 1911 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Matteo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 161,450 babies since 1880, Matteo is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,455 of their 13,577 babies (18%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Matteo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Matteo and names like it
- Compare Matteo and MateoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMatteo peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matteo since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Matteo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Matteo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Matteo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.