Meaning not yet researched.
Matteo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,455 in 2025. Its best rank was #138 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #138 in 2024; #146 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Matteo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#146 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #138.
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Matteo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,455 boys in 2025. Peak: #138 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 2,589 (2024).
In 2025, 2,455 US boys were named Matteo, making it the 146th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #138 in 2024. That is 134 fewer than the 2,589 boys named Matteo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #138, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,589. For comparison, it was #191 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Matteo in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 33,499 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 14,640 babies named Matteo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,913 US boys were named Matteo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,589. In 2025 that was about 1 in 696 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Matteo ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #71 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 9 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Matthew (1,659,655 babies since 1880), Mateo (126,778 babies since 1880), Mathew (77,745 babies since 1880) and Matt (23,892 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Matteo 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 42 | #71 | #155 |
| Florida | 270 | #72 | #191 |
| Connecticut | 47 | #78 | #145 |
| New Jersey | 112 | #86 | #123 |
| New York | 195 | #92 | #147 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | #94 | — |
| Massachusetts | 73 | #95 | #244 |
| California | 415 | #97 | #93 |
| New Mexico | 20 | #98 | #138 |
| Arizona | 72 | #121 | #122 |
| Delaware | 9 | #123 | #196 |
| Texas | 310 | #126 | #108 |
| Illinois | 85 | #142 | #136 |
| Colorado | 48 | #151 | #197 |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #162 | #280 |
| Utah | 31 | #178 | #300 |
| Washington | 49 | #179 | #203 |
| Iowa | 22 | #189 | #327 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #192 | #163 |
| Indiana | 43 | #199 | #290 |
| South Carolina | 28 | #204 | #468 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #220 | — |
| West Virginia | 9 | #221 | — |
| Maryland | 25 | #231 | #248 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #240 | #241 |
| Oregon | 18 | #242 | #285 |
| North Carolina | 50 | #253 | #343 |
| Virginia | 34 | #256 | #269 |
| Kansas | 15 | #257 | #350 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #262 | #386 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #262 | #912 |
| Michigan | 39 | #263 | #375 |
| Tennessee | 34 | #266 | #577 |
| Idaho | 10 | #269 | #232 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #278 | #368 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #310 | #399 |
| Missouri | 22 | #310 | #592 |
| Ohio | 38 | #315 | #526 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #323 | #309 |
| Georgia | 37 | #333 | #340 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #508 | #423 |
| Alabama | 9 | #554 | #471 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #589 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 2,455 | #146 |
| 2024 | — | — | 2,589 | #138 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,559 | 2,517 | #144 |
| 2022 | — | — | 2,048 | #183 |
| 2021 | — | — | 2,356 | #165 |
| 2020 | — | — | 2,223 | #173 |
| 2019 | — | — | 2,161 | #179 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,298 | 2,095 | #196 |
| 2017 | — | — | 2,082 | #188 |
| 2016 | — | — | 2,387 | #169 |
| 2015 | — | — | 2,171 | #191 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,288 | 836 | #374 |
| 2013 | — | — | 798 | #377 |
| 2012 | — | — | 707 | #411 |
| 2011 | — | — | 751 | #385 |
| 2010 | — | — | 642 | #429 |
| 2009 | — | — | 600 | #455 |
| 2008 | — | — | 473 | #557 |
| 2007 | — | — | 392 | #624 |
| 2006 | — | — | 381 | #623 |
| 2005 | — | — | 306 | #682 |
| 2004 | — | — | 277 | #699 |
| 2003 | — | — | 244 | #739 |
| 2002 | — | — | 217 | #797 |
| 2001 | — | — | 175 | #900 |
| 2000 | — | — | 176 | #890 |
| 1999 | — | — | 155 | #941 |
| 1998 | — | — | 151 | #937 |
| 1997 | — | — | 106 | #1,159 |
| 1996 | — | — | 77 | #1,384 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,241 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,378 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,275 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,242 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,658 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,749 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,393 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,660 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,453 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,580 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,405 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,210 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,172 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,228 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,640 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #3,051 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,687 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,166 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,997 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,193 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,623 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,070 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,961 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,389 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,649 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,825 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,487 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,024 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,311 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,325 |
| 1965 | — | — | 14 | #2,233 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,193 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,890 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,647 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,307 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,342 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,288 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,749 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,089 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,029 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,561 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,401 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,423 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,863 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,979 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,162 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,140 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,932 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,409 |
| 1928 | — | — | 23 | #1,592 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,038 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,958 |
| 1925 | — | — | 18 | #1,913 |
| 1924 | — | — | 28 | #1,442 |
| 1923 | — | — | 19 | #1,847 |
| 1922 | — | — | 25 | #1,533 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,918 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,675 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,289 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,130 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,952 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,220 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,853 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,931 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,899 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,178 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,915 |
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).