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Matteo vs Mattias

American parents have registered 33,499 Matteos since 1880, against 2,681 Mattiases. Matteo is still ahead, with 2,455 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Matteo against Mattias, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Matteo Mattias

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

Matteo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1911 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Matteo had 7 and Mattias had 5.

Side by side

  Matteo Mattias
Total US births 33,4992,681
Most in one year 2,589185
Babies in 2025 2,455163
Estimated living today 33,0002,700
Median age today 78
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 138th boys1,140th boys
Rank in 2025 146th1,231st
First recorded 19111975
Girls / boys 16 / 33,4830 / 2,681

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.

Where each one is strongest

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 Matteo Mattias
Italy 163,7711,882
France 44,230 Mattéo895
Belgium 8,735545
Switzerland 7,622153
Sweden 4,2593,188
England and Wales 3,824370
Norway 479522
Poland 5506
Ireland 35912

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: Matteo and Mattias.