Mato

#8,672 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Matej

Mato has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #8,672 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Mato, 2025

1 in 368,000

Mato over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mato: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Matej

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mato means

Mato is a diminutive of Matej.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mato → Matej → Matthaeus. The family’s meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Mattiṯyāhū.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matej.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Mato between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #8,573 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,498 in 2020 to #8,672 in 2025.

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 Mato?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 190,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #8,672; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mato sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mato. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mato was born before 2016 — so the typical Mato is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 84; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Mato 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: +875; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,826; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2007 (9)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,573; 2016

Spellings of Mato

Mato is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 48.9% against Mato's <0.01%.

Mark48.9%1,362,176
Mason12.3%342,583
Max6.0%167,458
Mario5.4%151,310
Marc5.0%140,604
Mateo4.5%126,693
Marco2.7%76,578
Milo1.6%43,847

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 Mato is used

Across 1910–2025, Mato was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 119,513 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1South Dakota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mato has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mato around the world

Where Mato 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.

Canada
2022–2022
#2,959
in 2022
South Australia
1982–1982
#424
in 1982

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.

Mato by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #8,672
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,826
Best rank ever: #8,573; 2016
Peak year: 2007; 9 that year
First recorded: 2001
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 84
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Mato

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

Mats Mate Matis Math Matty Mati Matvei Matviy Matao Mataio Mataeo Matrix Matei Matti Matin Matvii Matyas Matas Matai Matej Matix Matua Matvey Matrim

Sibling names for Mato

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

Abagail Rhianna Jaiden Jazmyne Taniya Shakira Sydnee Lesli

For a brother

Aaden Kale Keven Jamarcus Gavyn Nevin Zakary Brennen

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