Matie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Matie has been given to 579 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1884, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Matie, 2009
1 in 764,000
Matie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Matie?
Matie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,609 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Matie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maties were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Matie was born before 1897 — so the typical Matie is around 128 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1880s
- 28.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.86%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1880s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (164).
Is Matie 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 1884 (26)
- Years since peak
- 141
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.9% average annual change
Spellings of Matie
Matie is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 16.8% against Matie's 0.02%.
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.
Matie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Matie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Matie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.