Matayah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Matayah has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2003, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Matayah, 2018
1 in 440,000
Matayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Matayah?
Matayah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 440,000
- 8 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 304,713 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Matayah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Matayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Matayah was born before 2006 — so the typical Matayah is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 63.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (47).
Is Matayah 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 2003 (9)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Matayah
Matayah is not the most common spelling — Maliyah is, with 16.6% against Matayah's 0.08%.
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.
Matayah around the world
Where Matayah 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.
- Canada2017–2017#3,407in 2017
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Matayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Matayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Matayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.