Matthe
Matthe was last recorded in 1988, when 7 babies were given it; 68 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matthe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Matthe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,213, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1986, the peak
Matthe peaked in 1986, when 12 boys were given it, #3,794 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 7 | #6,213 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,460 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,794 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,999 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,063 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,937 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,457 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,527 | 3.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,600 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matthe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matthe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Matthe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matthe, and how old are they?
An estimated 64 Americans named Matthe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 285 people named Matthe (0 women and girls, 285 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Matthe rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.