Mate

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Máté in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, Meti in IN India, เมธี in TH Thailand and Მათე in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mate is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name108K records spelled Mate9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Maté, Máté, Māṭe, Mâté, Mâte

• Croatian given name68K records spelled Mate24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia

  Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

  Also written Мате, Máté, Maté, Mäte, Máte

• Spanish given name31K records spelled Mate10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan

  Also written Maté, Máté, Matè, Måtê, Mâtê

• a separate given name3.8K records spelled Mate5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Maté, Máté, Matè, Māṭe

• Hindi given name3.7K records spelled Mate45 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written Meeta, Mete, Meet, Metu, মেট

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mate is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• from the ecclesiastical personal name Mate, Hungarian form of Matthew.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from a pet form of the personal name Mathieu, French form of Matthew.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, plant

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Lithuanian, locative singular of mãtas (“measure”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In pi, inflection of mata (“dead; thought”):

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1918–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Máté Zalkab. 1896HUHungarian writer and revolutionary (1896–1937)
• Mate Bobanb. 1940BABosnian Croat politician (1940-1997)
• Mate Parlovb. 1948HRCroatian boxer and Olympic gold medalist (1948–2008)
• Mate Matišićb. 1965HRCroatian playwright, screenwriter and composer
• Mate Bilićb. 1980HRCroatian footballer
• Mate Rimacb. 1988BACroatian inventor and entrepreneur
• Máté Fejesb. 1988HUHungarian ice dancer
• Mate Pavićb. 1993HRCroatian tennis player
• Bálint Vécseib. 1993HUnot in their usual nameHungarian association football player
• Christian Pulisicb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player (born 1998)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 377 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mate?

We estimate roughly 78 thousand people bear Mate (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Mate have the most bearers?

We estimate about 54 thousand people bear Mate in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mate.

Where is Mate most common?

Mate is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 182 people carrying it.

How common is Mate compared with other names?

In Hungary, Mate is the 48th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.

Is Mate a male or female name?

Mate is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Mate mean?

Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Matevz, Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew).