Mathilde vs Matteo
American parents have registered 33,499 Matteos since 1880, against 1,793 Mathildes. Matteo is still ahead, with 2,455 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Mathilde Matteo
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 132 years in which either name was published, Matteo for 82 years and Mathilde for 50 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1880–1919 Mathilde ahead
- 1924–1939 Matteo ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1946–1952 Mathilde ahead
- 1955–2025 Matteo ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Mathilde | Matteo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,793 | 33,499 |
| Most in one year | 32 | 2,589 |
| Babies in 2025 | 21 | 2,455 |
| Estimated living today | 690 | 33,000 |
| Median age today | 15 | 7 |
| Peak year | 1894 | 2024 |
| Best rank | 504th girls | 138th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,722nd | 146th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1911 |
| Girls / boys | 1,793 / 0 | 16 / 33,483 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Mathildes alive today are over 15; half the Matteos are over 7. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Mathilde Louisiana (24.4×), New York (4.1×), California (1.2×)
- Matteo Nevada (4.0×), Arizona (2.6×), Florida (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Mathilde | Matteo |
|---|---|---|
| France | 146,870 | 44,230 Mattéo |
| Italy | 381 | 163,771 |
| Belgium | 2,012 | 8,735 |
| Switzerland | 1,600 | 7,622 |
| Norway | 6,006 | 479 |
| England and Wales | 611 | 3,824 |
| Poland | 26 | 550 |
| Ireland | 7 | 359 |
| Scotland | 10 | 204 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mathilde and Matteo.