Mattie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: , 2 Pet form of Matthew or Matilda
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mæti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mattie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 12K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, 2 Pet form of Matthew or Matilda. Variant: Matty.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mattie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Mattie | 9 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Mattie | 3 |
| US United States | #761 | 28,503 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Mattie | 388 |
| GH Ghana | #203 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Mattie | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | #978 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 7 | Mattie | 99 |
| GA Gabon | #438 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Mattie | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #102 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Mattie | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mattie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a pet form of the personal name Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Matilda, also used as a formal given name
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English: 1 (m.) Pet form of MATTHEW . 2 (f.) Pet form of MATILDA . Top
as a word
In Dutch, friend, mate, buddy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mattie Griffith Browneb. 1828USAmerican novelist, suffragist
- Mattie Blaylockb. 1850USAmerican prostitute
- Mattie Edwards Hewittb. 1869USAmerican architectural and landscape photographer (1869-1956)
- Mattie Dob. 1981USLaotian-American film director
- Mattie Parkerb. 1983USmayor of Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Mattie Stepanekb. 1990USAmerican writer (1990–2004)
- Mattie Larsonb. 1992USAmerican gymnast
- Mattie Rogersb. 1995USOlympic Weightlifter
- Mattie Liptakb. 1996USAmerican actor
- Mattie Pollockb. 2001GBEnglish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28K | #1,291 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 2.9K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 2.9K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 2.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 249 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 149 | #1,291 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2018 | 7 | #255 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mattie come from?
- , 2 Pet form of Matthew or Matilda. Variant: Matty. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Mattie a male or female name?
- Mattie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Mattie?
- In the etymology graph, Matt, Matias and Matheus are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Matthew and Mathew.
- What does the name Mattie mean?
- Recorded meaning: , 2 Pet form of Matthew or Matilda.
- How common is the name Mattie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,503 people named Mattie in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Mattie compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Mattie is the 102nd most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Mattie?
- A machine transcription gives /mæti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mattie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 168 thousand people named Mattie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mattie.
What do you want to know about Mattie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mattie” — the 102nd most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.