Name histories / Mateo
Mateo: U.S. name history
Published Social Security birth-name counts for the exact spelling Mateo in the male recorded field, 1880–2025.
In the latest file, Mateo was at position 8 among published male-field spellings, with 11,045 recorded births. That is down 304 from 11,349 in 2024. Its first released row in this archive is from 1904; a missing earlier row does not establish when the name began to exist.
What the historical pattern shows
Mateo first has a released male-field row in 1904, but remained outside the first 1,000 spellings in 1990. It rose from position 428 in 2000 to 222 in 2010, then entered the top 100 by 2015.
The spelling reached a high of sixth position in 2023 and was eighth in 2025. Its largest annual count was in 2024. Those milestones describe the exact spelling in national records, not a combined total for related spellings.
Selected annual records
| Birth year | Published count | Position* |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 12 | 2,541 |
| 1950 | 14 | 2,082 |
| 1975 | 42 | 1,353 |
| 1990 | 56 | 1,525 |
| 2000 | 572 | 428 |
| 2010 | 1,624 | 222 |
| 2015 | 5,029 | 85 |
| 2020 | 9,007 | 20 |
| 2024 | 11,349 | 7 |
| 2025 | 11,045 | 8 |
*Position is calculated from the published entries in one year and field, ordered by count; it is not an official SSA rank. Counts are not adjusted for population or coverage. SSA suppresses small cells, so no row does not mean zero births.
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Sources: SSA national data and suppression rules · our data method. Data reviewed 1 November 2026.