Girls' name · since 1959
Mette
68 babies named Mette in U.S. Social Security records since 1959, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 68
- total births
- 1959–2016
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 28%
- born in that decade
Mette is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 68 have been recorded since 1959.
Mette has 68 recorded births among girls since 1959, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1959 to 2016.
- 68 total births
- 1959–2016 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 28% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mette's 68 recorded births place it above 56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mette's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mette's full recorded timeline at 1977, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1968, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2010 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1959–2016
- Peak year (2010)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 58 years of records
Mette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Mette's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 28% of all-time use.
Mette births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1960s
1960s
17 births
- 1970s
1970s
16 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 19 births (28% of all-time use).
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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, 1959–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mette: Baby Name Since 1959 - 68 Births, Peak 2010." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mette. 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 Mette 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.