Matt

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Matt is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In New Zealand it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from Matt/Matte ‘meadow, grassland’.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 955◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 1K
  • CACanada1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈167K ●

across 10 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
564 ●

1.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 155 ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

MattLatin · English●2.2M records
ΜατGreek · Greek●5 records
ম্যাটBengali · Bangla●1 records
매트Hangul · Korean●0 records
МэттCyrillic · Tajik●0 records

Locally spelled Mat in MY Malaysia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Toponymic surname from Matt/Matte ‘meadow, grassland’. Bearer count not given.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Matt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#269125,054105K rec.—4Matt281
AU Australia#203110,893102K rec.—3Matt298
US United States#262110,2901.4M rec.1 in 3K110KMatt564
CA Canada#25451,68846K rec.—4Matt229
DK Denmark—37,932△288 rec.1 in 15538KMatt62
NO Norway—9,304△272 rec.1 in 58832KMatt46
NZ New Zealand#748,9635.2K rec.—10Matt153
PH Philippines—7,6605.7K rec.——Matt98
RU Russia—6,9587K rec.——Matt62
DE Germany—6,54211K rec.—1Matt129
IT Italy#8895,4095.8K rec.—2Matt79
FR France—2,850△40 rec.1 in 24K2.9K—9

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.2M82%
  • 102K4%
  • Spanish79K3%
  • French47K2%
  • German28K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,158,32082%
101,5344%
Spanish79,3143%
French46,5082%
German28,0221%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Matt is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name184K records spelled Matt24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Matt', Màtt, Mätt, Mått, Mãtt

  • a separate given name106K records spelled Matt2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Mått

  • Arabic given name17K records spelled Matt18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Israel, United Kingdom

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written Mt, מט, מאט, Mat, Matte

  • Indonesian given name13K records spelled Matt4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Mắtt

  • Malay surname10K records spelled Matt35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Indonesia, Thailand

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian, Thai

    Also written Mat, แมต, แมตี, แม่ตู่, แม่ตุ

  • Finnish given name6.9K records spelled Matt6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Mätt, Mátt

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Matt is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Toponymic surname from alem. matte 'Wiese'; bearer count 1463.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In French, Short form of Matthew; Heb. 'gift of God'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, from a diminutive of Matthew, or metonymic for matter; first attested Adam Matte 1275 RH (W)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In German, Toponymischer Familienname aus mhd. matte ‚Wiese‘; ggf. auch zu Siedlungs-/FlurN. 1463 Bearer.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In English, variant of Matte ‘meadow’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02505007501K190019502000975 · 1959

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Matt in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188041
188129
188226
188339
188455
188541
188627
188734
188843
188933
189028
189127
189230
189330
189423
189526
189628
189720
189824
189921
190031
190121
190227
190327
190424
190524
190625
190722
190819
190932
191027
191140
191254
191360
1914103
1915106
1916105
1917114
1918128
1919101
192094
1921104
1922101
192389
192493
192587
192675
192773
192867
192965
193071
193159
193258
193355
193460
193559
193666
193749
193857
193953
194066
194155
194274
194363
194461
194560
194676
194778
194887
194977
195076
195192
195280
1953108
1954139
1955196
1956371
1957569
1958907
1959975
1960878
1961888
1962857
1963906
1964882
1965800
1966727
1967707
1968782
1969799
1970739
1971805
1972588
1973502
1974400
1975408
1976340
1977293
1978234
1979255
1980236
1981198
1982197
1983226
1984178
1985167
1986163
1987135
1988145
1989105
199092
199183
199287
199360
199467
199550
199652
199756
199856
199969
200048
200153
200259
200355
200446
200540
200667
200762
200868
200960
201051
201144
201256
201347
201461
201557
201659
201772
201842
201939
202037
202137
202234
202346
202446
202529

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Matt Busby, b. 1909Matt Craven, b. 1956Matt Salinger, b. 1960Matt Dillon, b. 1964Matt LeBlanc, b. 1967Matt Damon, b. 1970Matt Ross, b. 1970Matt Gerald, b. 1970Matt Lanter, b. 1983Matt Cardona, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 86 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Matt
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020110K#510
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.3K#7,658
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.2K#7,255
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.9K#8,076
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.9K#830
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024362#3,635
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—358#22,805
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—278#4,530
LI LiechtensteinStatistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)2020244—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020190#510
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—183#9,656
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—109#6,889

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 634 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matt?
We estimate roughly 167 thousand people bear Matt (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Matt have the most bearers?
Matt is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled matt.
Where is Matt most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matt is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 155 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Matt compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Matt is the 269th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Matt a male or female name?
Matt is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Matt mean?
Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from Matt/Matte ‘meadow, grassland’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Matt” — the 269th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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