Mattew
Mattew was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,312 among boys’ names; 1,234 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Mattew and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 24 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mattew by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mattew?
#10,312 among boys’ names, 2025
Mattew fell from #5,435 in 2015 to #10,312 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 4.1 per million.
58 babies in 1987, the peak
Mattew peaked in 1987, when 58 boys were given it, #1,287 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,312 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,853 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,447 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,703 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,380 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,249 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,454 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,591 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,044 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,066 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,435 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,362 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,895 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,196 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,458 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,688 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,723 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,760 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,922 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,622 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,767 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,689 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,058 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,626 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,558 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,778 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,262 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,557 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,157 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,167 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,192 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,288 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,450 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,686 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,182 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,347 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,601 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,752 | 20.9 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,287 | 31.1 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,352 | 28.8 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,465 | 24.9 |
| 1984 | 37 | #1,620 | 20.5 |
| 1983 | 50 | #1,320 | 27.9 |
| 1982 | 34 | #1,724 | 18.7 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,534 | 22.3 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,152 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,208 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,048 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,617 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,809 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,178 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,327 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,371 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,301 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,435 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,199 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,238 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,407 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,149 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,912 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,790 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,794 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,436 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,025 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,003 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,959 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,825 | 2.8 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,654 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mattew a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mattew has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mattew: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mattew, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,234 Americans ever recorded as Mattew. The median Mattew alive today is 38 years old; half are between 24 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,326 people named Mattew (9 women and girls, 2,317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 233 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 523 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 217 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mattew
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 Mattew and names like it
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- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Mattew.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mattew alive today were born 1981-1996.
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