Matt
Matt reached its high-water mark in 1959 at number 256, and has been recorded 23,892 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,757th. About 17,000 Matts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Matt boys named Matt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,892
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 256th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,757th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 23,887
How old the living Matts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,892 babies given the name since 1880, about 17,000 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 880 of them are children and 3,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Matts
- Matt Damon (born 1970)American actor
- Matt LeBlanc (born 1967)American actor
- Matt Groening (born 1954)American cartoonist
- Matt Smith (born 1982)English actor
- Matt Dillon (born 1964)American actor
- Matt Bellamy (born 1978)English singer-songwriter, member of Muse
- Matt Stone (born 1971)American actor, animator and filmmaker
- Matt Bomer (born 1977)American actor
People named Matt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matt is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matt is most concentrated in Idaho (2.5×), Utah (2.4×), Oregon (2.4×), Iowa (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Matt peaked:
Matt elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Matt | 2,915 | 337th |
| England and Wales boys | Matt | 692 | 362nd |
| Belgium boys | Matt | 459 | 358th |
| Switzerland boys | Matt | 250 | 366th |
| Ireland boys | Matt | 173 | 300th |
| Scotland boys | Matt | 104 | 203rd |
| France girls | Matt | 45 | 2,907th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Matt | 32 | 236th |
| Poland boys | Matt | 23 birth registrations | 389th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Matt: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matt | 42 | 0.003% | 827th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matt | 206 | 0.047% | 122nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Matt | 2 | 0.003% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Matt is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.06% of children were given it – 92 of them.
Matt: rank by region
In 2024, Matt was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Matt | 341 | 8 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matt appears in the lists for Province of Liège (184th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Matt among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Matt | 17 | 26 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Matt lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 183 men called Matt were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Matt | 14 | 0.034 | 1,683 |
| Barcelona | Matt | 94 | 0.032 | 1,585 |
| Lleida | Matt | 5 | 0.021 | 2,374 |
| Tarragona | Matt | 5 | 0.011 | 3,680 |
| Balears, Illes | Matt | 7 | 0.011 | 4,254 |
| Bizkaia | Matt | 5 | 0.009 | 3,450 |
Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Matt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.