Mattox
Boy · MAT-oks · Welsh
Mattox is a boys' name of Welsh origin, meaning “son of Madog”. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).
What does Mattox mean?
Welsh: variant of Maddox, from the Welsh name Madog
“son of Madog”
- Say it
- MAT-oks
Is Mattox a girl's or a boy's name?
Mattox is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mattox in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,397among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Mattox, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,568th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 47 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the boys named Mattox in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 55 boys in the US were given Mattox or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,087, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.
Mattox in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,397 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,015 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,490 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,568 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,000 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,192 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,160 |
| 2015 | 47 | #2,599 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,088 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,893 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,711 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,949 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,180 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,104 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,284 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,186 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,931 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,237 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,788 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,265 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
Names like Mattox
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maddox Lennox Hendrix Knox Memphis Gael Bowen Phoenix Hudson Beckett Milo Makai
Other spellings of Mattox
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