Meaning not yet researched.
Matheo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 344 in 2025. Its best rank was #751 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Matheo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#751 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Matheo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 344 boys in 2025. Peak: #751 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 344 (2025).
In 2025, 344 US boys were named Matheo, making it the 751st most common boys’ name of the year, up 100 places from #851 in 2024. That is 58 more than the 286 boys named Matheo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #751, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 344. For comparison, it was #1,528 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Matheo in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 2,451 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,376 babies named Matheo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,941 US boys were named Matheo; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 344. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,965 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Matheo ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #377 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mateo (126,778 babies since 1880), Matteo (33,499 babies since 1880), Mathieu (2,416 babies since 1880) and Mattea (1,859 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Matheau 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: Matheau (67).
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 Matheo 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 52 | #377 | #1,346 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #417 | — |
| Maryland | 11 | #460 | — |
| Indiana | 14 | #505 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #539 | — |
| Colorado | 10 | #560 | — |
| Texas | 52 | #597 | #807 |
| Arizona | 11 | #615 | #970 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #635 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #653 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #670 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #698 | — |
| California | 39 | #704 | #905 |
| Utah | 5 | #772 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #909 | #1,473 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #978 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,510 | #1,432 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 344 | #751 |
| 2024 | — | — | 286 | #851 |
| 2023 | — | — | 271 | #871 |
| 2022 | — | — | 191 | #1,115 |
| 2021 | — | — | 141 | #1,323 |
| 2020 | — | — | 143 | #1,285 |
| 2019 | — | — | 156 | #1,224 |
| 2018 | — | — | 148 | #1,249 |
| 2017 | — | — | 144 | #1,270 |
| 2016 | — | — | 117 | #1,476 |
| 2015 | — | — | 108 | #1,528 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,392 |
| 2013 | — | — | 74 | #1,909 |
| 2012 | — | — | 55 | #2,345 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,978 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,599 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,125 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,640 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,744 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #4,982 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,580 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,169 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,063 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,836 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #8,050 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,542 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,484 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,994 |
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).