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Mata

Girls' name

English equivalent of Matthew

Mata has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mata, 1969

1 in 579,000

Mata over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mata: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Matthew

Biblical Hebrew

What Mata means

Mata is a English equivalent of Matthew.

Origin, language, and formation

Mata is used in Scottish Gaelic. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Scottish Gaelic, Mata is pronounced /ˈmaʰtə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 137 girls were recorded with the name Mata between 1885 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1953; its best national rank was #1,004 in 1885.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mata?

Mata had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 281,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,463 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mata sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 401,463 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mata was born before 1915 — so the typical Mata is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1890s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
39
People you could plausibly meet
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1890s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Mata rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (10)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,004
1885

Spellings of Mata

Mata is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 44.6% against Mata's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mata around the world

Where Mata ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2002–2025
    #5,870
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1971–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mata by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,004
1885
Peak year
1953
10 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mata

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mata

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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