How many Mattixs are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Mattix are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How do you spell Mattix?

Mattix is the most-used spelling in US records — 24 of the 38 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Matix.

How popular is the name Mattix in 2025?

Mattix ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Mattix?

About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Mattix — 24 in all.

Will my child share the name Mattix with classmates?

Mattix will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Mattix

Masculine · “gift of the Lord”

#4249 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare24 boys in 2025

Mattix takes Matt and adds an x, and the name underneath is Mattityahu — a Hebrew sentence meaning gift of the Lord.

How old is the name Mattix?

Mattix first appears in US birth records in 2004 — 21 years ago. The typical Mattix is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Mattix are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Mattix most popular?

Mattix peaked in 2012, reaching #3059 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 1,190 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.

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Where it comes from

Origin, sound and short forms

Our story of Mattix

Ours, offered as ours. The x at the end of a modern American name is doing something specific: it borrows the look of Latin third-declension nouns — Felix, Rex, Phoenix — which read as ancient and solid, and attaches it to something modern. Mattix, Maddox and Jaxx all use it. Underneath sits Mattityahu, a Hebrew sentence about a gift, which is about as far from Latin as it is possible to get.

Meaningscholars disagree

gift of the Lord

Matthew descends from Hebrew Mattityahu, joining a word for a gift to a form of the divine name. The -ix ending is a modern American addition with no meaning of its own, borrowed from the look of Latin and comic-book names.

Pronouncing Mattix

MAT-iks

Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.

Nicknames for Mattix

Moderate

MattThe front half

TixTakes the ending

MaxA sound-based form

What the data says

146 years of official birth records

The long climb, and where it stands now

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded: 2004
Most boys named: 201237 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #3059reached in 2012
Change vs 2024: +41.2%24 in 2025, from 17

Mattix sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2012, with 37 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Mattix in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Matthew in English — related form
Mattityahu in Hebrew — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.

Mattixs among us

500

people named Mattix are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Mattix

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Mattix

#4249
Mattix on the 2025 chart: #890
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mattix went to 24 boys in 2025, but Matix is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 38, which makes it the 890th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,359 places above the chart.

Mattix24
Matix14

About 1 boy in 44,949 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 71,170 for Mattix itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Faraz test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mattix's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Faraz climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Faraz's path sketches the road Mattix is walking now.

40%chance Mattix will feel “very 2010s” by 2040

Mattix, aligned on its peakFaraz· peak 1990not yet written

Mattix today is about where Faraz stood in 2003 — 13 years past a #3058-sized peak. By 2018, Faraz had settled around #7772.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Mattix sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Mattix beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Mattix in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Mattixthis name24#4249Guadalupe24#4249Denny24#4249Hughes24#4249Erling24#4249

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

Matt is a complete short form with an enormous record.
The final x keeps it distinct on any list.
Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.

What to consider

It is close to Maddox and Matrix in an American ear.
The x carries no meaning and is purely decorative.
Mattix, Matix and Maddix are all in use and none is dominant.

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Frequently asked

How many Mattixs are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Mattix are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Mattix?: Mattix is the most-used spelling in US records — 24 of the 38 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Matix.
How popular is the name Mattix in 2025?: Mattix ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Mattix?: About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Mattix — 24 in all.
Will my child share the name Mattix with classmates?: Mattix will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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