Matti — #9730 US unisex name
646 babies named Matti in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 45% of names given to girls today.
37% of everyone ever named Matti was born in this single decade.
34 babies were named Matti in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Matti
The Social Security Administration has registered 646 babies named Matti between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Matti currently holds the #9730 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 34 babies received it in a single year. Matti is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 77 additional births since 1975.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Matti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 239 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Matti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Matti in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Matti in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 646 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Matti at a glance
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Current rank
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Matti popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1980
- Peak year (2008)
- 34
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
Currently ranks #9730 among girls.
646 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 34 births in a single year.
Matti popularity over time — boys
77 total births recorded since 1975 (Matti as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Matti accounts for 11% of total recorded use across both genders.
Matti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 239 births that decade — 37% of Matti's all-time total
Matti decade highlights
- Peak decade 239 births
- Runner-up 139 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Matti's strongest decade
239 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Matti by state
Where Matti concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 15 | 2.3% |
15 of 646 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.