Mattie

Where Mattie comes from

The dictionaries list Mattie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Matilda, also used as a formal given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #29 among girls — 704 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #25
    966 babies named Mattie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #466.
  4. 1981
    Mattie Do born
    Laotian-American film director
  5. 1990
    Mattie Stepanek born
    American writer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Matilda, also used as a formal given name
  • A diminutive of the female given name Martha, also used as a formal given name
  • A diminutive of the female given name Madeline, variant of Maddie
Namesakes
  • Mattie Stepanek · American writer, 1990–2004
  • Mattie Do · Laotian-American film director, born 1981
  • Mattie Edwards Hewitt · American architectural and landscape photographer, 1869–1956
  • Mattie Pollock · English association football player, born 2001
  • Mattie Silks · American madam, 1848–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.