Mattew
#10,312 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mattew has been given to 1,234 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #10,312 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Mattew, 2025
1 in 474,000
Mattew 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mattew?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,312
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mattew sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mattew. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mattews were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mattew was born before 1987 — so the typical Mattew is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 35.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,229
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (433).
Is Mattew 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
- +1,541
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,063
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,877
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.41×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.1%
- Peak was 1987 (58)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Spellings of Mattew
Mattew is not the most common spelling — Matthew is, with 85.7% against Mattew's 0.06%.
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 Mattew is used
Across 1910–2025, Mattew was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 597,208 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
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. Mattew has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mattew around the world
Where Mattew 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.
- France1989–2023#5,114in 2023
- Canada1991–2019#2,943in 2019
- South Australia1971–2000#556in 2000
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.
Mattew by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mattew
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mattew
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.