Girl
Mattie
Mattie means "Also diminutive of Matilda, battle-mighty (Germanic)" and comes from Germanic, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
AramaicDiminutive of Martha – "lady, mistress" (Aramaic)
GermanicAlso diminutive of Matilda – "battle-mighty" (Germanic)
Births by decade
1900s
13,920
1910s
22,380
1920s
25,704
1930s
16,463
1940s
11,849
1950s
6,647
1960s
2,630
1970s
1,114
1980s
1,294
1990s
2,016
2000s
3,292
2010s
2,116
Peaked in the 1920s · 109,425 total U.S. births since 1900