Mattye
Feminine · “a pet form of Martha or Matilda”
Mattye is Mattie with a y and an e, an old American pet name written on birth records as a name in full. It is two syllables, warm and friendly.
How old is the name Mattye?
Mattye first appears in US birth records in 1883 — 142 years ago. The typical Mattye alive today was born around 1924, making them about 101 years old. About 100 people named Mattye are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mattye most popular?
Mattye peaked in 1883, reaching #920 nationally. See the whole 1883 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Martha / Matilda to Mattye
The story of Mattye
Mattie was one of the most familiar pet names of nineteenth-century America, and families wrote it Mattie, Matty, Mattye and Mattey. This spelling ends with ye, a look that echoes the old English of signs like Ye Olde, though the y here is simply a letter. No record explains why families chose it.
Meaningscholars disagree
a pet form of Martha or Matilda
Mattie was a pet form of Martha and Matilda. Mattye is a spelling of it, and the record does not say which longer name a family had in mind.
How the name formed
- Martha / Matilda
- Mattie
- Mattye
Related forms: Mattie
Pronouncing Mattye
MAT-ee
Two syllables, stressed on the first.
Nicknames for Mattye
Limited
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
- 1883
- Most girls named
- 191718 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #920reached in 1883
- Change vs 1987
- −16.7%5 in 2001, from 6
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.
Mattye in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mattie in English — spelling variant
Mattyes among us
people named Mattye are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Mattye sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is warm and old-fashioned.
- It is almost never given now, so it is distinctive.
- People will write Mattie.
- It reads as a nickname, and some will ask for the full name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mattyes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Mattye are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mattye in 2025?
- Mattye is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Mattye with classmates?
- Mattye will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
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