Matty
Matty is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,845 among girls’ names and #8,021 among boys’, #7,825 among all names counting both); 930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Matty is “a diminutive of the female given names Matilda and Martha, variant of Mattie.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Matthew.”
Diminutives + -y.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matty?
#5,845 among girls’ names, 2025
Matty rose from #6,166 in 2015 to #5,845 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 13.1 per million.
31 babies in 2025, the peak
Matty peaked in 2025, when 31 babies were given it (21 girls, #5,845 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 11 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,845 | 10 | #8,021 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,345 | 8 | #9,550 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,319 | 6 | #11,752 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,379 | 9 | #8,741 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,317 | 6 | #11,650 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,712 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,333 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,973 | 5 | #13,439 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,715 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,818 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,166 | 9 | #8,466 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,789 | 7 | #10,345 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,028 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,041 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,484 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,807 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,832 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,281 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,726 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,552 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,719 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,128 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,788 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,681 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,945 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,427 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,588 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,264 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,619 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,924 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,355 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,548 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,321 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,769 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,543 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,821 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,309 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,784 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,806 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,175 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,300 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,634 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,882 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,853 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,244 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,005 | 6 | #3,860 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,694 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,759 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,831 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,664 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,546 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,756 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,548 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,294 | 5 | #4,345 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,042 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,585 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,357 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #4,029 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,744 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,647 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,517 | 6 | #4,145 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 10 | #2,919 | |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,515 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 10 | #2,801 | |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,739 | 8 | #3,277 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,047 | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 8 | #3,092 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,734 | 8 | #2,980 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,999 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,641 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,070 | under 5 |
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 Matty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 930 Americans recorded as Matty, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Matty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matty, and how old are they?
An estimated 740 Americans named Matty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,382 people named Matty (1,033 women and girls, 349 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Matty born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #1,069 | 3.5× |
Where Matty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Matty is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Matty with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 147,379 babies since 1880, Matty is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 597 babies (5.2%), the fourth most given that year.
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.
More about Matty and names like it
- Compare Matty and MattieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMatty peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matty since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Matty.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Matty alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.