Matthew
355
Babies in 2024
-71%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 7.44k
-10%
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 Matthew
Matthew peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (7,443 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 355 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Matthew reached its peak in 1997, when 7,443 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #6 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 355 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 80,931 boys have been officially registered with the name Matthew in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 8,125 boys were registered with the name, starting from 1,216 in 2014 and ending at 355 in 2024.