girls:
207 births since 1973
#5509 (4th percentile)
boys:
77.1k births since 1880
#374 (92nd percentile)
overall:
77.3k births since 1880
#819 (89th percentile)
The name Mathew is the #819 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77,259 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #374 (91.9% percentile) for all time with 77,052 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,509 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 207 births since 1973.
Mathew has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1973 for girls).
The name Mathew has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mathew reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 81.3% percentile (ranked #142) with 1,031 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 1,049 births per million (ranked 79.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mathew ranks #660 for boys (27.6% percentile) with 141 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mathew reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #788) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mathew".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Mathew", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 18 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Matthew" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Matthew..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mathew. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Mathew is pronounced as MA-thyue, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-thue, at 8.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AE1 TH Y UW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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