# Matti (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/matti/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 733 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 77 / 656 (89% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 47, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 8,477 |
| 2012 | 18 | 7,060 |
| 2013 | 11 | 10,011 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,530 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,313 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,486 |
| 2017 | 15 | 7,709 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10,304 |
| 2019 | 11 | 9,526 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,822 |
| 2021 | 9 | 10,821 |
| 2022 | 11 | 9,434 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7,907 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10,004 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9,877 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | 6,001 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,445 |
| 1988 | 5 | 8,089 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,784 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,840 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,862 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,329 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,630 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,353 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,244 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,691 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,217 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,646 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,533 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2,870 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,435 |
| 2008 | 6 | 2,775 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |

## People named Matti

- Matti Vanhanen, Finnish politician and the 40th prime minister of Finland
- Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper (1963–2019)
- Matti Järvinen, athletics competitor (1909-1985)
- Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish rally driver
- Matti Hautamäki, Finnish ski jumper
- Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer, born 1984
- Matti Mattsson, Finnish swimmer
- Matti Sippala, athletics competitor (1908-1997)
- Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor (1951–1995)
- Matti Heikkinen, Finnish cross-country skier and sports executive
- Matti Lähde, Finnish cross-country skier (1911–1978)
- Matti Kassila, Finnish film director and screenwriter (1924–2018)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.