Mattingly — unisex name
309 babies named Mattingly in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
309 girls have been named Mattingly since 1996, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2023.
- 309
- total births
- 1996–2023
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 44%
- born in that decade
44% of everyone ever named Mattingly was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Mattingly in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mattingly
The Social Security Administration has registered 309 babies named Mattingly between 1996 and 2023, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mattingly currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Mattingly is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 53 additional births since 1995.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mattingly performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 135 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Mattingly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mattingly in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mattingly 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 309 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.
Mattingly at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mattingly popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1996
- Peak year (2009)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
309 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 24 births in a single year.
Mattingly popularity over time — boys
53 total births recorded since 1995 (Mattingly as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Mattingly accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mattingly by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 135 births that decade — 44% of Mattingly's all-time total
Mattingly decade highlights
- Peak decade 135 births
- Runner-up 130 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Mattingly's strongest decade
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Mattingly by state
Where Mattingly concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 309 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.6% 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, 1996–2023 (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.