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Matthan

#11,518 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mattan

Matthan has been given to 311 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #11,518 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Matthan, 2025

1 in 553,000

Matthan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matthan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mattan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matthan means

Matthan is a form of Mattan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Matthan is used in Biblical, Biblical Latin and Biblical Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mattan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 311 boys were recorded with the name Matthan between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2011; its best national rank was #5,364 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,327 in 2020 to #11,518 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,343 in 2015 to #11,518 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.

How common is Matthan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,518
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matthan 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matthan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matthans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matthan was born before 2008 — so the typical Matthan is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
311
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Matthan 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
−977
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,191
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,825
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2011 (14)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,364
1991

Spellings of Matthan

Matthan is not the most common spelling — Matthew is, with 72.8% against Matthan's 0.01%.

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.

Matthan around the world

Where Matthan 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.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2015
    #5,044
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Matthan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,518
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,191
Best rank ever
#5,364
1991
Peak year
2011
14 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
311
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Matthan

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

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Sibling names for Matthan

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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