Matej
given name · Czech · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matej is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Matthew.
- CZCzechia1 in 139◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 163
- SISlovenia1 in 176
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈113K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 147 ●
- 1 in 139 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
53K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Матей in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Mattei in US United States, IT Italy and Матеј in MK North Macedonia.
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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Matthew
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #67 | 77,038△ | 7.2K rec. | 1 in 139 | 77K | Matej | 121 |
| SK Slovakia | #31 | 14,974 | 2K rec. | — | 13 | Matej | 147 |
| SI Slovenia | #279 | 11,939△ | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 176 | 12K | Matej | 99 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 10,681 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Матей | 27 |
| HR Croatia | #96 | 10,120 | 18K rec. | 1 in 418 | 13K | Matej | 121 |
| MD Moldova | — | 7,103△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 474 | 7.1K | — | 4 |
| MK North Macedonia | #62 | 4,398△ | 40 rec. | 1 in 483 | 4.4K | Матеј | 12 |
| RU Russia | — | 2,939 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Матей | 86 |
| IT Italy | — | 2,229 | 2.3K rec. | — | 23 | Mattei | 14 |
| AT Austria | #869 | 1,683 | 288 rec. | — | 398 | Matej | 50 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,351 | 1.2K rec. | — | 6 | Matej | 93 |
| FR France | — | 785△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 86K | 785 | — | 2 |
Roughly 77K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 139). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Czech342K73%
- Croatian73K16%
- Hungarian24K5%
- Slovak15K3%
- German3.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | 342,157 | 73% |
| Croatian | 73,417 | 16% |
| Hungarian | 23,948 | 5% |
| Slovak | 15,079 | 3% |
| German | 3,154 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Matej is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, second/third-person dual present of měś
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Czech form of MATTHEW . Pet forms: Máta, Matejek, Mat jí( e)k, Matou ek, Matys, Matýsek .
as a word
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1986 | 1 |
| 1988 | 3 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1990 | 1 |
| 1991 | 3 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1994 | 2 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 2001 | 4 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 22 |
| 2018 | 25 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 24 |
| 2021 | 27 |
| 2022 | 35 |
| 2023 | 50 |
| 2024 | 31 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 35 years between 1985–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Matthew of Alsaceb. 1137FRnot in their usual nameCount of Boulogne
- Matej Mavričb. 1979SISlovenian footballer
- Matej Jugb. 1980SIFootball referee
- Matej Tóthb. 1983SKSlovakian racewalker
- Matej Toninb. 1983SISlovenian politician
- Matej Beňušb. 1987SKCanoe slalom racer
- Matej Jonjićb. 1991HRCroatian association football player
- Matej Delačb. 1992HRCroatian footballer
- Matej Mitrovićb. 1993HRCroatian footballer
- Matej Mohoričb. 1994SISlovenian professional cyclist
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●
Attested in 59 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 12K | #12 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 12K | #9 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 10K | #101 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 504 | #640 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 398 | #198 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 320 | #3,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 256 | #32,550 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 252 | #714 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 252 | #683 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 232 | #3,197 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 223 | #4,848 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 269 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Matej?
- We estimate roughly 113 thousand people bear Matej (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Matej have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 77 thousand people bear Matej in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matej.
- Where is Matej most common?
- Matej is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 139 people carrying it.
- How common is Matej compared with other names?
- In the Czechia, Matej is the 67th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
- Is Matej a male or female name?
- Matej 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 Matej mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Matthew
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Matej” — the 67th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.