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Matina

#16,425 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Malagasy origin

Matina has been given to 366 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #16,425 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Matina, 2025

1 in 663,000

Matina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Malagasy origin

Malagasy

What Matina means

Matina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Matina is used in French. Its origins include Malagasy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Matina is pronounced /ma.ti.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 366 girls were recorded with the name Matina between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1974; its best national rank was #3,796 in 1932.

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 Matina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,425
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matina 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matina was born before 1978 — so the typical Matina is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
347
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1970s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Matina 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
29.4%
Peak was 1974 (17)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,796
1932

Spellings of Matina

Matina is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 30.7% against Matina'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.

Where Matina is used

Across 1910–2025, Matina was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,495,549 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 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. Matina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Matina around the world

Where Matina 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.

  • France
    2018–2018
    #6,224
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1957–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Matina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,425
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,796
1932
Peak year
1974
17 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
366
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Matina

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

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Sibling names for Matina

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

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