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How popular is the name Matthews?

Births per year, rank history and how many Matthewses are alive today.

Matthews (male) last appeared in the England and Wales name records in 2016 (ranked 4023rd); fewer than three babies a year have been given the name since. Matthews is one spelling of a name also recorded as Mathews; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Matthews you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old. Half of all Matthewses born in England and Wales are between 8 and 20, and there are at least 62 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Matthews - on average, only one in every 4,888 such rooms contains a Matthews.

How many babies are named Matthews each year?

Includes all spellings: Matthews, Mathews. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Matthews spelling rank?

Where does the Mathews spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.