Matty

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Matty: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Matty: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #478, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#478highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2022

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3225
2010	#5707
2015	#4736
2019	#5591
2022	#5669

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #478 among boys in Scotland, #3254 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Matty appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 178 births with the name.

Matty across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Matty's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#1545 (2006)	#3254 (2024)	26 of 27	178 (1998–2024)	13 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#3225 (1999)	#3225 (1999)	#5669 (2022)	5 of 24	17 (1999–2022)	4 (1999)

Matty by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Matty in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	69	10 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	79	10 of 10	8
2020s	23	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Matty appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #478 in Scotland in 2024.

Matty's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2079	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1545	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #478, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Mattie · #255, 20y
Mattis · #152, 52y
Matus · #601, 14y
Matvey · #548, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Reem · #478, 30y
Sandy · #478, 29y
Alya · #476, 29y
Marla · #476, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Murphy · #478, 27y
Reem · #478, 30y
Kabir · #479, 30y
Raife · #477, 25y

Matty was ranked #478 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Matty and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Matty without appearing here.

Matty moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2837 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1724 and #4678.
Maddison Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3687 and #3687 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1724 and #4678.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1545 and #4052.
Kim Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2837 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1724 and #3865.

Moved ahead of Matty

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #2104.
Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2324 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3011 and #1786.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2142.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #2728.

Moved the opposite way to Matty

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Matty went from #1545 to #3254 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1132.
Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Matty went from #1578 to #3254 while Matheo went from #4333 to #1517.

Moved the same way as Matty

Jade Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Matty went from #2220 to #3254 and Jade from #2220 to #5119.
Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Matty went from #2005 to #3254 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #478 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Matty across 2 official records

Matty by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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