Matika

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Matika has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1990, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Matika, 1997

1 in 518,000

Matika over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matika means

Matika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Matika is used in Sandawe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Matika between 1975 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1990; its best national rank was #4,801 in 1990.

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 Matika?

Matika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997: 1 in 518,000; 7 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only: 1 in 249,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 358,920 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Matika 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 1997 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 358,920 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matika was born before 1990 — so the typical Matika is around 35 today.

Median birth year: 1990; About 35 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 57.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 95; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 57.9% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Matika 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1990 (20)
Years since peak: 35; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,801; 1990

Spellings of Matika

Matika is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 57.5% against Matika's <0.01%.

Maria57.5%566,111
Marisa4.9%48,707
Marina4.0%39,514
Fatima4.0%38,945
Matilda3.8%37,270
Malia3.2%31,606
Tamika2.3%22,760
Martina1.9%18,498

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.

Matika around the world

Where Matika 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.

South Australia
1997–2012
#871
in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Matika 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,801; 1990
Peak year: 1990; 20 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 1997
All-time count: 95
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Matika

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

Mateo Mattel Mateya Matina Yuvika Onnika Eshika Navika Matisse Mateja Mattia Ruhika Mati Mathel Mathea Adrika Matsue Maty Matlyn Arnika Mathew Adhvika Matelyn Vivika

Sibling names for Matika

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

For a sister

Kacy Kortney Shante Kathryne Jessika Brittni Kristian Stefani

For a brother

Laron Dejuan Antwon Akeem Tyron Shay Elizabeth Kelsey

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