Mats
Mats is a name with multiple cultural origins: Swedish, Norwegian.
- Swedish
- Norwegian
Meaning & Origin of Mats
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mats is a name with multiple cultural origins: Swedish, Norwegian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Swedish
- Norwegian
The Story of Mats
American parents first put Mats on the record books as a baby boy name in 1986, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2003, when 9 Matss were born — ranking #7,245 that year. About 47% of every Mats on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Mats last appeared in the published SSA data in 2018, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 83 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Mats
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Mats. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Mats
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Source: Datamuse . Phonetic similarity ranking, not curated.
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About the name Mats
Mats is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1986 and has accumulated 83 births in the dataset. Mats's peak popularity came in 2003 when it ranked #7,245. Use the chart and map above to compare Mats's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.