Matty — #9559 US unisex name
737 babies named Matty in U.S. Social Security records since 1904, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 46% of names given to girls today.
25% of everyone ever named Matty was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Matty in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Matty
The Social Security Administration has registered 737 babies named Matty between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Matty currently holds the #9559 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Matty is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 161 additional births since 1915.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Matty performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 183 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Matty shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 199 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Matty in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Matty 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 737 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.
Matty at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Matty popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1904
- Peak year (2020)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 121 years of records
Currently ranks #9559 among girls.
737 total births across 121 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 28 births in a single year.
Matty popularity over time — boys
161 total births recorded since 1915 (Matty as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Matty accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Matty by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 183 births that decade — 25% of Matty's all-time total
Matty decade highlights
- Peak decade 183 births
- Runner-up 177 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Matty's strongest decade
183 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Matty by state
Where Matty concentrates geographically — total births since 1904
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 199 | 27.0% |
199 of 737 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 27.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 27.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1904–2024 (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.