Matti
Matti was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,874 among girls’ names; 733 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matti mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Matti is “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew”
Vernacular form of Matias and/or Matteus (both of the same origin), brought to Finland as Catholic saint’s names. Already attested as a Finnish given name in medieval records. Cognate with English Matt, Matthew.
/ˈmɑtːi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matti?
#9,874 among girls’ names, 2025
Matti fell from #9,308 in 2015 to #9,874 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 6.2 per million.
34 babies in 2008, the peak
Matti peaked in 2008, when 34 girls were given it, #4,516 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,874 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,999 | 5 | #13,528 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,902 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,429 | 5 | #13,640 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,816 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,817 | 7 | #10,211 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,521 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,299 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,705 | 6 | #11,686 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,483 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,308 | 7 | #10,238 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,527 | 5 | #13,347 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,006 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,056 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,473 | 5 | #13,622 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,767 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,235 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,516 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,050 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,724 | 5 | #13,322 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,544 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,894 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,534 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,580 | 5 | #11,833 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,219 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,428 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,098 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,263 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,132 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,993 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,147 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,935 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,894 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,837 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,760 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,715 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,392 | 5 | #8,776 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,982 | 5 | #8,082 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,602 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,507 | 6 | #6,439 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,151 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,323 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,978 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,852 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,999 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Matti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 733 Americans recorded as Matti, 89% are girls and 11% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Matti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matti, and how old are they?
An estimated 722 Americans named Matti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,123 people named Matti (741 women and girls, 382 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 645 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Matti 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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 146,780 babies since 1880, Matti is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 583 babies (1.7%), again the seventh 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 Matti
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Sequoia | 4,432 |
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 Matti and names like it
- Compare Matti and MattieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMatti peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matti since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Matti.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Matti alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.