Mattie
Mattie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 235 births. Its best rank was 25th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2350.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19202,902 births
- Best rank
- #25in 1882
- Since 1880
- 132,813people given the name
The story in the numbers
132,813 girls have been named Mattie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 2,902 births — 0.24% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 235 births in 2024, against 2,902 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 117 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mattie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,844 | |
| 1890s | 12,449 | |
| 1900s | 13,837 | |
| 1910s | 22,243 | |
| 1920s | 25,526 | |
| 1930s | 16,295 | |
| 1940s | 11,781 | |
| 1950s | 6,622 | |
| 1960s | 2,611 | |
| 1970s | 1,117 | |
| 1980s | 1,297 | |
| 1990s | 2,044 | |
| 2000s | 3,342 | |
| 2010s | 2,610 | |
| 2020s | 1,195 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Mattie was the 96th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Mattie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Linniepeak 1921
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Berthapeak 1918
- Vinapeak 1920
- Florapeak 1920
- Leliapeak 1919
- Addiepeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.