Mateo

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Mateo is ranked 7th among boys in 2024 (11,302 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #7down 1 from 2023
Births in 2024: 11,3020.66% of boys
Peak year: 202411,302 births
Best rank: #6in 2023
Since 1904: 115,568people given the name

Babies named Mateo, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

115,568 boys have been named Mateo in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 11,302 births — 0.66% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2019, and the 2020s alone account for 44%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100 and 2 in the top 10.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Mateo
1900s	5
1910s	63
1920s	162
1930s	102
1940s	112
1950s	116
1960s	102
1970s	285
1980s	370
1990s	2,010
2000s	10,490
2010s	50,600
2020s	51,151

In 2024, its biggest year

Mateo was the 7th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Mateo

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.