Mataya
#7,750 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mataya has been given to 1,178 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,750 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 76 recorded.
Babies named Mataya, 2025
1 in 237,000
Mataya over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mataya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,750
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mataya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mataya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Matayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mataya was born before 2006 — so the typical Mataya is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,178
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (560).
Is Mataya 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
- +1,592
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,488
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,815
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 18.4%
- Peak was 2003 (76)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Mataya
Mataya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 25.9% against Mataya's 0.25%.
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.
Where Mataya is used
Across 1910–2025, Mataya was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 377,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Dakota1 in 33,333
- 2North Dakota1 in 50,000
- 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 4Nebraska1 in 100,000
- 5Washington1 in 100,000
- 6California1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Indiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mataya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mataya around the world
Where Mataya 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.
- England & Wales1996–2019#4,686in 2019
- Canada1996–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia2001–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mataya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mataya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mataya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.