Meaning not yet researched.
Mateo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11,045 in 2025. Its best rank was #6 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #6 in 2023; #8 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Mateo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #6.
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Mateo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11,045 boys in 2025. Peak: #6 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 11,349 (2024).
In 2025, 11,045 US boys were named Mateo, making it the 8th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #7 in 2024. That is 304 fewer than the 11,349 boys named Mateo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11,349, in 2024. For comparison, it was #85 in 2015 and #2,082 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mateo in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 126,778 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 62,327 babies named Mateo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 93,848 US boys were named Mateo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 11,349. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mateo ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #2 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 46 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Matthew (1,659,655 babies since 1880), Mathew (77,745 babies since 1880), Matteo (33,499 babies since 1880) and Mathias (15,544 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Matea, Matheu and Mathea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Matea (851), Matheu (214), Mathea (151), Maty (147), Mateya (97), Mateyo (32), Mateah (22).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mateo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 1 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 184 | #2 | #54 |
| Texas | 2,081 | #3 | #30 |
| California | 2,239 | #3 | #29 |
| Arizona | 419 | #3 | #44 |
| New Mexico | 99 | #3 | #47 |
| Oregon | 127 | #6 | #88 |
| Florida | 775 | #6 | #89 |
| Illinois | 417 | #6 | #57 |
| Washington | 254 | #7 | #69 |
| Colorado | 244 | #7 | #64 |
| Oklahoma | 136 | #9 | #87 |
| District of Columbia | 34 | #9 | #50 |
| Kansas | 111 | #11 | #114 |
| Nebraska | 62 | #13 | #187 |
| Georgia | 278 | #13 | #109 |
| North Carolina | 319 | #15 | #152 |
| Maryland | 145 | #15 | #105 |
| New Jersey | 274 | #16 | #84 |
| Idaho | 62 | #17 | #120 |
| Iowa | 83 | #18 | #163 |
| Indiana | 186 | #19 | #172 |
| Hawaii | 26 | #21 | #111 |
| Virginia | 211 | #22 | #170 |
| Rhode Island | 25 | #23 | #166 |
| Delaware | 25 | #23 | #152 |
| Utah | 117 | #24 | #130 |
| Arkansas | 73 | #25 | #161 |
| New York | 413 | #27 | #102 |
| Connecticut | 87 | #27 | #127 |
| Wyoming | 12 | #31 | — |
| Wisconsin | 115 | #35 | #162 |
| Minnesota | 112 | #39 | #176 |
| North Dakota | 21 | #41 | — |
| South Carolina | 93 | #41 | #182 |
| South Dakota | 22 | #45 | #277 |
| Tennessee | 147 | #46 | #220 |
| Alabama | 81 | #48 | #260 |
| Massachusetts | 109 | #51 | #123 |
| Alaska | 13 | #53 | — |
| Michigan | 150 | #53 | #201 |
| Missouri | 104 | #53 | #358 |
| Louisiana | 68 | #55 | #311 |
| Montana | 18 | #58 | — |
| Kentucky | 71 | #63 | #662 |
| Pennsylvania | 172 | #65 | #241 |
| Ohio | 163 | #69 | #344 |
| West Virginia | 19 | #106 | — |
| New Hampshire | 13 | #117 | — |
| Mississippi | 27 | #123 | — |
| Maine | 9 | #149 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,679 | 11,045 | #8 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,645 | 11,349 | #7 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,579 | 11,293 | #6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,869 | 10,397 | #11 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,644 | 9,181 | #15 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,761 | 9,007 | #20 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9,022 | #26 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8,221 | #37 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,297 | 7,774 | #42 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6,559 | #59 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,970 | 5,029 | #85 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,287 | 3,743 | #106 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,637 | 3,588 | #109 |
| 2012 | — | — | 2,840 | #137 |
| 2011 | — | — | 2,204 | #171 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,624 | #222 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,594 | #229 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,408 | #249 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,227 | #281 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,270 | #273 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,089 | #302 |
| 2004 | — | — | 961 | #320 |
| 2003 | — | — | 876 | #331 |
| 2002 | — | — | 766 | #354 |
| 2001 | — | — | 727 | #367 |
| 2000 | — | — | 572 | #428 |
| 1999 | — | — | 577 | #409 |
| 1998 | — | — | 409 | #513 |
| 1997 | — | — | 340 | #560 |
| 1996 | — | — | 232 | #696 |
| 1995 | — | — | 125 | #996 |
| 1994 | — | — | 83 | #1,286 |
| 1993 | — | — | 63 | #1,486 |
| 1992 | — | — | 60 | #1,507 |
| 1991 | — | — | 65 | #1,419 |
| 1990 | — | — | 56 | #1,525 |
| 1989 | — | — | 52 | #1,560 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,756 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,746 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,578 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,465 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,497 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,415 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,724 |
| 1981 | — | — | 30 | #1,885 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,335 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,815 |
| 1978 | — | — | 38 | #1,521 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,562 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,035 |
| 1975 | — | — | 42 | #1,353 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,817 |
| 1973 | — | — | 23 | #1,909 |
| 1972 | — | — | 28 | #1,668 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,246 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,102 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,590 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,534 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,310 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,572 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,618 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,299 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,277 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #2,017 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,469 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,344 |
| 1956 | — | — | 16 | #2,062 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,196 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #2,010 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,809 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,596 |
| 1950 | — | — | 14 | #2,082 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,298 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,400 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,800 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,998 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #1,985 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,778 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,048 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,861 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,287 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,151 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,250 |
| 1938 | — | — | 13 | #2,063 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,388 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,781 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,204 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,207 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,412 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,420 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,793 |
| 1929 | — | — | 25 | #1,468 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,777 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,098 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,957 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,541 |
| 1924 | — | — | 18 | #1,943 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,193 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,110 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,398 |
| 1920 | — | — | 25 | #1,533 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,223 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,484 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #2,015 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,130 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,039 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,176 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,333 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).