Mathieu

#4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births

Peak · boys
1998 · 76 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,416
since 1955

Mathieu over time

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Rank among boys' names. Mathieu has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #1,465, 1998boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#4,85720
2024#4,20025
2023#4,34324
2022#3,27836
2021#2,81944
2020#3,07437
2019#3,42633
2018#2,94340
2017#3,19336
2016#2,36555
2015#2,60047
2014#2,42952
2013#2,89539
2012#2,32655
2011#2,50449
2010#3,07237
2009#1,99070
2008#2,18661
2007#2,72144
2006#1,80876
2005#2,20654
2004#1,83467
2003#2,10253
2002#1,72367
2001#1,67769
2000#1,55277
1999#1,51774
1998#1,46576
1997#1,70657
1996#1,93346
1995#2,02641
1994#1,97742
1993#1,66253
1992#2,12836
1991#1,79844
1990#1,80943
1989#1,70545
1988#1,81537
1987#1,89633
1986#1,64539
1985#1,69836
1984#1,53140
1983#1,74832
1982#1,99927
1981#1,57738
1980#1,76532
1979#1,78831
1978#2,01224
1977#1,82328
1976#2,94613
1975#2,20520
1974#1,83225
1973#2,51315
1972#2,32316
1971#2,36616
1970#2,50914
1969#2,13016
1968#2,44512
1967#2,7609
1966#2,7849
1965#2,27013
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five boys were named Mathieu! It came in at #3,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Mathieu
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 657 spots since 2024 (#4,200#4,857)
  • 1,783 spots since 2020 (#3,074#4,857)
  • 2,257 spots since 2015 (#2,600#4,857)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 1998 at #1,465 (76 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 25,150
  • Highest: 1 in 25,150 boys born in 1998 were named Mathieu (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 26.4% of all boys named Mathieu (638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s12#3,505 (1955)#3,532
1960s64#2,130 (1969)#2,740
1970s202#1,788 (1979)#2,232
1980s359#1,531 (1984)#1,738
1990s512#1,465 (1998)#1,802
2000s638#1,552 (2000)#1,980
2010s443#2,326 (2012)#2,775
2020s186#2,819 (2021)#3,762

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Mathieu in 1955

boys
#3,505
6 births · 1 in 343,315 boys

Top boys' names in 1955

  1. #1Michael88,355
  2. #2David86,306
  3. #3James84,186
  4. #4Robert83,758
  5. #5John80,128
  6. #6William59,990
  7. #7Richard53,566
  8. #8Thomas45,855
  9. #9Mark42,255
  10. #10Steven37,847
  11. #3,505Mathieu6
More about 1955

boys

2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 343,315 of them was named Mathieu, which outranked 20.3% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mathieu
  1. #3,201Yvonne7
  2. #3,201Zebbie7
  3. #3,201Zvi7
  4. #3,505Mathieu6
  5. #3,505Abie6
  6. #3,505Able6
  7. #3,505Addis6
  8. #3,886Abbott5
  9. #3,886Abran5
  10. #3,886Abron5

Tied with 380 names at #3,505; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. 808Davy#1,333#525
  2. 326Wyatt#985#659
  3. 323Moises#1,311#988
  4. 296Tad#1,068#772
  5. 286Rhett#1,122#836
Fallers
  1. 738Rahn#908#1,646
  2. 415Ricci#739#1,154
  3. 321Meredith#952#1,273
  4. 309Michial#985#1,294
  5. 282Arvin#973#1,255

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1955