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How popular is “Matteus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Matteus” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Matteus” 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 “Matteus” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Matteus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Matteus” 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
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 16 0.000004002 16 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 -100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 -100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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