Meaning not yet researched.
Matt: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #230 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #230 in 1884; #3,818 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Matt in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,818 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #230.
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Matt: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #230 in 1884 · most boys in one year: 975 (1959).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Matt, making it the 3,818th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,000 places from #2,818 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 46 boys named Matt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #230, reached in 1884. The most boys given the name in a single year was 975, in 1959. For comparison, it was #2,318 in 2015 and #787 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Matt in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 41 babies with the name. In all, 23,892 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 8,226 babies named Matt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 441 US boys were named Matt; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Matthew (1,659,655 babies since 1880), Matteo (33,499 babies since 1880), Matthias (13,676 babies since 1880) and Maite (4,466 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maat, Math and Maytte are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Matty.
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: Maat (194), Math (100), Maytte (88), Maitte (78), Matthe (68), Mahit (17).
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.
Matt is listed as a nickname for Mathew, Matthew, Matthews, Matthias.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 29 | #3,818 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,818 |
| 2023 | — | — | 46 | #2,787 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,444 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,221 |
| 2020 | — | — | 37 | #3,111 |
| 2019 | — | — | 39 | #3,087 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,873 |
| 2017 | — | — | 72 | #1,994 |
| 2016 | — | — | 59 | #2,268 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,318 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,224 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,583 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,315 |
| 2011 | — | — | 44 | #2,727 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,456 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,221 |
| 2008 | — | — | 68 | #2,050 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,178 |
| 2006 | — | — | 67 | #2,003 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,740 |
| 2004 | — | — | 46 | #2,441 |
| 2003 | — | — | 55 | #2,071 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,908 |
| 2001 | — | — | 53 | #2,020 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,116 |
| 1999 | — | — | 69 | #1,587 |
| 1998 | — | — | 56 | #1,807 |
| 1997 | — | — | 56 | #1,745 |
| 1996 | — | — | 52 | #1,777 |
| 1995 | — | — | 50 | #1,771 |
| 1994 | — | — | 67 | #1,448 |
| 1993 | — | — | 60 | #1,534 |
| 1992 | — | — | 87 | #1,206 |
| 1991 | — | — | 83 | #1,220 |
| 1990 | — | — | 92 | #1,125 |
| 1989 | — | — | 105 | #1,000 |
| 1988 | — | — | 145 | #787 |
| 1987 | — | — | 135 | #801 |
| 1986 | — | — | 163 | #709 |
| 1985 | — | — | 167 | #687 |
| 1984 | — | — | 178 | #648 |
| 1983 | — | — | 226 | #561 |
| 1982 | — | — | 197 | #618 |
| 1981 | — | — | 198 | #608 |
| 1980 | — | — | 236 | #561 |
| 1979 | — | — | 255 | #531 |
| 1978 | — | — | 234 | #541 |
| 1977 | — | — | 293 | #470 |
| 1976 | — | — | 340 | #422 |
| 1975 | — | — | 408 | #388 |
| 1974 | — | — | 400 | #387 |
| 1973 | — | — | 502 | #339 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,099 | 588 | #312 |
| 1971 | — | — | 805 | #266 |
| 1970 | — | — | 739 | #285 |
| 1969 | — | — | 799 | #263 |
| 1968 | — | — | 782 | #258 |
| 1967 | — | — | 707 | #275 |
| 1966 | — | — | 727 | #271 |
| 1965 | — | — | 800 | #260 |
| 1964 | — | — | 882 | #258 |
| 1963 | — | — | 906 | #253 |
| 1962 | — | — | 857 | #261 |
| 1961 | — | — | 888 | #266 |
| 1960 | — | — | 878 | #269 |
| 1959 | — | — | 975 | #256 |
| 1958 | — | — | 907 | #258 |
| 1957 | — | — | 569 | #321 |
| 1956 | — | — | 371 | #392 |
| 1955 | — | — | 196 | #523 |
| 1954 | — | — | 139 | #629 |
| 1953 | — | — | 108 | #692 |
| 1952 | — | — | 80 | #788 |
| 1951 | — | — | 92 | #725 |
| 1950 | — | — | 76 | #787 |
| 1949 | — | — | 77 | #785 |
| 1948 | — | — | 87 | #721 |
| 1947 | — | — | 78 | #782 |
| 1946 | — | — | 76 | #764 |
| 1945 | — | — | 60 | #804 |
| 1944 | — | — | 61 | #806 |
| 1943 | — | — | 63 | #833 |
| 1942 | — | — | 74 | #745 |
| 1941 | — | — | 55 | #852 |
| 1940 | — | — | 66 | #765 |
| 1939 | — | — | 53 | #840 |
| 1938 | — | — | 57 | #824 |
| 1937 | — | — | 49 | #889 |
| 1936 | — | — | 66 | #743 |
| 1935 | — | — | 59 | #810 |
| 1934 | — | — | 60 | #804 |
| 1933 | — | — | 55 | #840 |
| 1932 | — | — | 58 | #839 |
| 1931 | — | — | 59 | #821 |
| 1930 | — | — | 71 | #762 |
| 1929 | — | — | 65 | #804 |
| 1928 | — | — | 67 | #803 |
| 1927 | — | — | 73 | #773 |
| 1926 | — | — | 75 | #743 |
| 1925 | — | — | 87 | #693 |
| 1924 | — | — | 93 | #674 |
| 1923 | — | — | 89 | #685 |
| 1922 | — | — | 101 | #644 |
| 1921 | — | — | 104 | #624 |
| 1920 | — | — | 94 | #659 |
| 1919 | — | — | 101 | #602 |
| 1918 | — | — | 128 | #535 |
| 1917 | — | — | 114 | #552 |
| 1916 | — | — | 105 | #560 |
| 1915 | — | — | 106 | #543 |
| 1914 | — | — | 103 | #480 |
| 1913 | — | — | 60 | #563 |
| 1912 | — | — | 54 | #548 |
| 1911 | — | — | 40 | #466 |
| 1910 | — | — | 27 | #551 |
| 1909 | — | — | 32 | #450 |
| 1908 | — | — | 19 | #606 |
| 1907 | — | — | 22 | #503 |
| 1906 | — | — | 25 | #450 |
| 1905 | — | — | 24 | #459 |
| 1904 | — | — | 24 | #442 |
| 1903 | — | — | 27 | #379 |
| 1902 | — | — | 27 | #386 |
| 1901 | — | — | 21 | #418 |
| 1900 | — | — | 31 | #409 |
| 1899 | — | — | 21 | #409 |
| 1898 | — | — | 24 | #408 |
| 1897 | — | — | 20 | #430 |
| 1896 | — | — | 28 | #365 |
| 1895 | — | — | 26 | #377 |
| 1894 | — | — | 23 | #393 |
| 1893 | — | — | 30 | #320 |
| 1892 | — | — | 30 | #345 |
| 1891 | — | — | 27 | #331 |
| 1890 | — | — | 28 | #333 |
| 1889 | — | — | 33 | #301 |
| 1888 | — | — | 43 | #275 |
| 1887 | — | — | 34 | #286 |
| 1886 | — | — | 27 | #328 |
| 1885 | — | — | 41 | #262 |
| 1884 | — | — | 55 | #230 |
| 1883 | — | — | 39 | #262 |
| 1882 | — | — | 26 | #351 |
| 1881 | — | — | 29 | #302 |
| 1880 | — | — | 41 | #264 |
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).