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How popular is “Mathew” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mathew” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mathew” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mathew” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mathew” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mathew” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mathew” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mathew” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 60 0.00029779 60 -100%
1881 55 0.000285436 55 -100%
1882 47 0.000212158 47 -100%
1883 37 0.000170549 37 -100%
1884 53 0.000217694 53 -100%
1885 34 0.000141164 34 -100%
1886 48 0.000188002 48 -100%
1887 31 0.000125307 31 -100%
1888 67 0.000223726 67 -100%
1889 42 0.000145356 42 -100%
1890 43 0.000142667 43 -100%
1891 44 0.000153485 44 -100%
1892 55 0.000164486 55 -100%
1893 39 0.000119918 39 -100%
1894 30 0.000088577 30 -100%
1895 33 0.000094012 33 -100%
1896 40 0.000111893 40 -100%
1897 50 0.00014411 50 -100%
1898 42 0.000110105 42 -100%
1899 39 0.000114965 39 -100%
1900 57 0.000126594 57 -100%
1901 39 0.000112778 39 -100%
1902 40 0.000103431 40 -100%
1903 34 0.000089192 34 -100%
1904 29 0.000071874 29 -100%
1905 36 0.000084921 36 -100%
1906 21 0.000049014 21 -100%
1907 54 0.000116032 54 -100%
1908 33 0.000067533 33 -100%
1909 42 0.000082156 42 -100%
1910 53 0.000089722 53 -100%
1911 45 0.000069846 45 -100%
1912 121 0.000122462 121 -100%
1913 140 0.000123119 140 -100%
1914 143 0.000100964 143 -100%
1915 204 0.000111328 204 -100%
1916 217 0.000112179 217 -100%
1917 208 0.00010365 208 -100%
1918 206 0.000094882 206 -100%
1919 247 0.000117048 247 -100%
1920 207 0.000091486 207 -100%
1921 192 0.000082244 192 -100%
1922 203 0.000088679 203 -100%
1923 178 0.000077308 178 -100%
1924 192 0.000080618 192 -100%
1925 163 0.000069858 163 -100%
1926 167 0.000072738 167 -100%
1927 147 0.00006338 147 -100%
1928 154 0.000068113 154 -100%
1929 136 0.000062039 136 -100%
1930 120 0.000053974 120 -100%
1931 97 0.000046094 97 -100%
1932 101 0.000047838 101 -100%
1933 89 0.000044512 89 -100%
1934 91 0.000043817 91 -100%
1935 90 0.000043064 90 -100%
1936 83 0.00003995 83 -100%
1937 75 0.0000352 75 -100%
1938 78 0.000035253 78 -100%
1939 66 0.000029953 66 -100%
1940 89 0.000038651 89 -100%
1941 82 0.000033656 82 -100%
1942 78 0.000028552 78 -100%
1943 82 0.000029052 82 -100%
1944 76 0.000028252 76 -100%
1945 90 0.000033925 90 -100%
1946 78 0.000024411 78 -100%
1947 93 0.000025817 93 -100%
1948 82 0.000023751 82 -100%
1949 116 0.000033288 116 -100%
1950 88 0.000025119 88 -100%
1951 124 0.000033661 124 -100%
1952 140 0.000036861 140 -100%
1953 161 0.000041779 161 -100%
1954 183 0.000045972 183 -100%
1955 175 0.000043586 175 -100%
1956 230 0.000055784 230 -100%
1957 251 0.000059731 251 -100%
1958 348 0.000084182 348 -100%
1959 359 0.00008634 359 -100%
1960 336 0.000080889 336 -100%
1961 347 0.00008377 347 -100%
1962 325 0.000080538 325 -100%
1963 412 0.000104088 412 -100%
1964 448 0.000115238 448 -100%
1965 443 0.000122192 443 -100%
1966 476 0.000136953 476 -100%
1967 594 0.000174968 594 -100%
1968 617 0.00018263 617 -100%
1969 656 0.000188759 656 -100%
1970 828 0.000229585 828 -100%
1971 935 0.000272408 935 -100%
1972 905 0.000287942 905 -100%
1973 1035 0.000343069 8 1027 -98%
1974 1092 0.000359211 8 1084 -99%
1975 1133 0.000375241 7 1126 -99%
1976 1167 0.000384603 5 1162 -99%
1977 1245 0.000391942 5 1240 -99%
1978 1298 0.000408964 12 1286 -98%
1979 1267 0.000380824 11 1256 -98%
1980 1341 0.000389316 7 1334 -99%
1981 1627 0.000470316 1627 -100%
1982 1717 0.000489458 5 1712 -99%
1983 1876 0.000541674 10 1866 -99%
1984 1983 0.000568398 15 1968 -98%
1985 1897 0.000531505 17 1880 -98%
1986 1984 0.000557761 17 1967 -98%
1987 2059 0.000571054 14 2045 -99%
1988 2070 0.00056021 9 2061 -99%
1989 2171 0.000564711 9 2162 -99%
1990 2184 0.000552565 10 2174 -99%
1991 1993 0.000511647 9 1984 -99%
1992 1841 0.000479268 8 1833 -99%
1993 1716 0.000455139 11 1705 -99%
1994 1634 0.000439525 1634 -100%
1995 1600 0.000436901 1600 -100%
1996 1514 0.000415114 1514 -100%
1997 1432 0.000394953 1432 -100%
1998 1452 0.000394758 1452 -100%
1999 1476 0.000399581 5 1471 -99%
2000 1348 0.000356623 5 1343 -99%
2001 1272 0.000339799 1272 -100%
2002 1121 0.00029987 1121 -100%
2003 1125 0.000295872 1125 -100%
2004 1092 0.000285795 1092 -100%
2005 1093 0.000284277 1093 -100%
2006 1011 0.000255549 1011 -100%
2007 926 0.000231634 926 -100%
2008 832 0.000211669 832 -100%
2009 799 0.000209153 799 -100%
2010 700 0.000189407 700 -100%
2011 691 0.000188912 691 -100%
2012 656 0.000179364 656 -100%
2013 674 0.000184877 674 -100%
2014 625 0.000168628 625 -100%
2015 628 0.000169688 628 -100%
2016 565 0.000154006 565 -100%
2017 503 0.000140652 503 -100%
2018 478 0.000135954 478 -100%
2019 389 0.000112074 389 -100%
2020 350 0.000104772 350 -100%
2021 315 0.000092977 315 -100%
2022 271 0.000080103 271 -100%
2023 259 0.000078219 259 -100%
2024 244 0.000073306 244 -100%

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