Matti
Matti reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 4,448, and has been recorded 733 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 720 Mattis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Matti boys named Matti
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 733
- Estimated living today
- 720
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 4,448th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1975
- Girls / boys
- 656 / 77
How old the living Mattis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 733 babies given the name since 1975, about 720 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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 Mattis
- Matti Vanhanen (born 1955)Finnish politician and the 40th prime minister of Finland
- Matti Nykänen (1963–2019)Finnish ski jumper
- Matti Järvinen (1909–1985)athletics competitor
- Matti Hautamäki (born 1981)Finnish ski jumper
- Jari-Matti Latvala (born 1985)Finnish rally driver
- Matti Breschel (born 1984)Danish road bicycle racer, born 1984
- Matti Mattsson (born 1993)Finnish swimmer
- Matti Pellonpää (1951–1995)Finnish actor
People named Matti with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matti is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular girls’ names the year Matti peaked:
Matti elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Matti | 545 | 224th |
| France boys | Matti | 370 | 1,255th |
| Belgium boys | Matti | 275 | 469th |
| England and Wales boys | Matti | 44 | 2,435th |
| Poland boys | Matti | 10 birth registrations | 455th |
| Belgium girls | Matti | 5 | 1,123rd |
| England and Wales girls | Matti | 3 | 5,581st |
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.
Matti: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matti | 516 | 0.041% | 159th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matti | 29 | 0.007% | 378th |
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, Matti is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.07% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Matti: rank by region
In 2025, Matti was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Matti | 461 | 5 |
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.
Matti by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 177 | 113th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Matti 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 | Matti | 36,668 | 73,248 |
| Finland girls | Matti | — | 9 |
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.
Related names
Matti against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.