Mattthew
Mattthew was last recorded in 1995, when 6 babies were given it; 70 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mattthew by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mattthew?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,500, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1984, the peak
Mattthew peaked in 1984, when 12 boys were given it, #3,597 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #8,500 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,777 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,963 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,869 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,347 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,597 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,964 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,124 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,702 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,622 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mattthew a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mattthew has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mattthew: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mattthew, and how old are they?
An estimated 66 Americans named Mattthew 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.
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.
Names spelled alike
Mattthew is a less common spelling of Matthew: SSA has recorded 70 Mattthew and 1,659,655 Matthew since 1880.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mattthew
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Johathan | 1,936 |
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.