Mathew
17
Babies in 2024
-69%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 393
+21%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Mathew
Mathew peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (393 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 17 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Mathew reached its peak in 1996, when 393 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #115 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 17 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,245 boys have been officially registered with the name Mathew in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 324 boys were registered with the name, starting from 55 in 2014 and ending at 17 in 2024.