Unisex name · since 1994
Matteson
110 babies named Matteson in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 110
- total births
- 1994–2013
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 55%
- born in that decade
Matteson sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 110 recorded since 1994.
Matteson has 110 recorded births among girls since 1994, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1994 to 2013.
- 110 total births
- 1994–2013 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 55% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Matteson's 110 recorded births place it above 64% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Matteson's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Matteson splits its recorded history at 2001: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1994 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2001 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Matteson popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–2013
- Peak year (2001)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Matteson popularity over time - boys
10 total births recorded since 1988 (Matteson as boys' name)
Matteson by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Matteson's strongest decade.
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Matteson births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
45 births
- 2000s
2000s
60 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 60 births (55% of all-time use).
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- Matteson's decade-level peak was the 2000s (60 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1994–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Matteson: Baby Name Since 1994 - 110 Births, Peak 2001." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/matteson. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Matteson draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.