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Matt

Pronounced /mæt/

Rank in 2024
#2,796
Born in 2024
46
Peak year
1959 · #256
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 46 boys were named Matt, about 1 in every 37,289.
  • It peaked in 1959 with 975 babies, ranked #256.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 23,861 boys have been named Matt since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Matt per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,775 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Silent: 1,098 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 8,242 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,617 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,006 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 890 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 577 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Matthias.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/mæt/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Matt, CC BY-SA 4.0.