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Matthew
Pronounced /ˈmæθjuː/
Rank in 2024
#33
Born in 2024
7,078
Peak year
1983 · #3
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#11,452)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 7,078 boys were named Matthew, about 1 in every 242.
- It peaked in 1983 with 50,208 babies, ranked #3.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,646,990 boys have been named Matthew since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Matthew per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.9Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 2.1Boomers1946–64
- 14.1Gen X1965–80
- 22.3Millennials1981–96
- 11.4Gen Z1997–12
- 5.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 14,341 babies, 0.86 per 1,000. Silent: 12,316 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Boomers: 78,311 babies, 2.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 383,233 babies, 14.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 679,706 babies, 22.33 per 1,000. Gen Z: 357,016 babies, 11.37 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 119,737 babies, 5.51 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From earlier Matheu, from Old French Mathieu, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Aramaic מַתַּי (mattay). Compare Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of the Lord”). Doublet of Mattathias.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈmæθjuː/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Matthew, CC BY-SA 4.0.