How popular is the baby name Mattingly in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Mattingly.
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I knew about the baby boys named Wrigley Fields, Zambrano and Brett and Favre. But here are a few more sports-inspired boy names that I only just learned about:
Mattingly. Yankees fans Deedee and Mike Marinaccio of Orlando named their son Mattingly after Don Mattingly. The name of their second son, Alexander Randolph, was inspired in part by Alex Rodriguez and Willie Randolph.
Marchetti and Marciano (as middle names). Jenny Angelici of Huntington Beach, CA, named her sons Gino Marchetti and Nicholas Marciano in honor of football player Gino Marchetti and boxer Rocky Marciano.
Have you come across any sports-inspired baby names recently?
The name Mattingly started appearing in the U.S. baby name data in the mid-1990s, debuting first for boys, then for girls:
1999: unlisted
1998: 5 baby boys named Mattingly
1997: unlisted
1996: 5 baby girls named Mattingly
1995: 5 baby boys named Mattingly [debut]
1994: unlisted
1993: unlisted
What put it there?
I’d say baseball player Don Mattingly, who spent his entire career (1982 to 1995) with the New York Yankees.
Curiously, the name didn’t pop up until the year he retired — despite the fact that he’d had a very successful career (e.g., six-time All-Star, nine-time Gold Glove winner).
Since then, it has primarily seen usage as a girl name.
The surname Mattingly can be traced back to Mattingley, the name of a village in Hampshire, England. The place name, derived from the Old English, means: “woodland clearing (leah) associated with (-inga) a man called Matta.”
Hanks, Patrick. (Ed.) Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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