In 2025, 26 US girls were named Mattea, making it the 5,056th most common girls’ name of the year, down 71 places from #4,985 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 27 girls named Mattea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,891, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #5,243 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mattea in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 7 babies. In all, 1,859 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 745 babies named Mattea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 289 US girls were named Mattea; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mattie (133,859 babies since 1880), Mateo (126,778 babies since 1880), Matteo (33,499 babies since 1880) and Matheo (2,451 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mattheau and Matiya are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.