girls:
636 births since 1980
#5080 (11th percentile)
boys:
72 births since 1975
#4514 (2nd percentile)
overall:
708 births since 1975
#7031 (9th percentile)
The name Matti is the #7,031 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 708 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 9.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,080 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 636 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #4,514 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 72 births since 1975.
Matti first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Matti is available in 43 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (42 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Matti has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Matti were girls. Interestingly, until around 1980, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1975 to 1979), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (90.5% girls from 1980 to 2023).
For girls, Matti reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #955) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Matti ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 49.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Matti reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Matti".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Matti. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.7% confident that Matti is pronounced as MA-tee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-tee, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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