Matty

Where Matty comes from

Diminutives + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Matty
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,877 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #1,538
    7 babies named Matty — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1906
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1980
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Matilda and Martha, variant of Mattie.
Namesakes

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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.