Matheson
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Matheson has been given to 132 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2005, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Matheson, 2024
1 in 669,000
Matheson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Matheson?
Matheson had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Matheson sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matheson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mathesons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Matheson was born before 2010 — so the typical Matheson is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 132
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (61).
Is Matheson 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 2005 (10)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.4% average annual change
Spellings of Matheson
Matheson is not the most common spelling — Matheo is, with 74.3% against Matheson's 4.0%.
Matheson around the world
Where Matheson 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.
- Canada1999–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1964–2009#473in 2009
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Matheson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Matheson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Matheson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.