Boys' name · since 1975
Mattthew
70 babies named Mattthew in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1984. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 70
- total births
- 1975–1995
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 74%
- born in that decade
Mattthew sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 70 recorded since 1975.
Mattthew has 70 recorded births among boys since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 1995.
- 70 total births
- 1975–1995 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 74% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mattthew's 70 recorded births place it above 56% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mattthew's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mattthew's full recorded timeline at 1986, 49% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 51% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1979, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1984 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mattthew popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1995
- Peak year (1984)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Mattthew by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Mattthew's strongest decade.
52 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 74% of all-time use.
Mattthew births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 12
1970s
12 births
- 1980s
1980s
52 births
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 52 births (74% of all-time use).
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- Mattthew's decade-level peak was the 1980s (52 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mattthew: Baby Name Since 1975 - 70 Births, Peak 1984." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mattthew. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mattthew draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.