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Matti

#9,874 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Gift of God, through Matias

Matti has been given to 733 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #9,874 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 34 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Matti, 2025

1 in 332,000

Matti over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Matti over time

In 2025, Matti went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19752025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Matti: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of God, through Matias

Biblical Hebrew

What Matti means

Matti belongs to the name family reached through Matti → Matias. Its meaning is “gift of God”.

Origin, language, and formation

Matti is used in Finnish. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matias and Matt.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Matti is pronounced /ˈmɑtːi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 656 girls were recorded with the name Matti between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2008; its best national rank was #4,516 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,817 in 2020 to #9,874 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,308 in 2015 to #9,874 in 2025.

In the United States, 77 boys were recorded with the name Matti between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,999 in 1975.

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 Matti?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,874
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matti 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mattis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matti was born before 2005 — so the typical Matti is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
656
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Choose a decade

2000s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Matti 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
+125
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,057
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−566
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2008 (34)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,516
2008

Spellings of Matti

Matti is not the most common spelling — Mattie is, with 24.9% against Matti's 0.12%.

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 Matti is used

Across 1910–2025, Matti was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 818,728 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Matti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Matti around the world

Where Matti 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,489
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Matti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,874
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,057
Best rank ever
#4,516
2008
Peak year
2008
34 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
656
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,999
1975
Peak year
2015
7 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Matti

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

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Sibling names for Matti

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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