Mateja

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Матеја 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●

Attested across 3 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◐

Mateja is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name1.2K records spelled Mateja3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Serbia, Slovenia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Matĕja

• French given name919 records spelled Mateja3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Serbia, Slovenia, Belgium

  Also written Matéja

• Czech given name886 records spelled Mateja4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, United States

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Matěja, Matĕja

• a separate given name742 records spelled Mateja2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, United States, India

  Also written Matěja

37 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.

Over time●

AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 34 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mateja Matevskib. 1929MKMacedonian poet (1929–2018)
• Mateja Kosb. 1958SIresearcher
• Mateja Vraničar Ermanb. 1965SISlovene politician
• Mateja Medvedičb. 1967SISlovenian architect
• Mateja Svetb. 1968SIformer Yugoslavian female alpine skier
• Mateja Kežmanb. 1979RSSerbian association football player
• Mateja Šimicb. 1980SItriathlete
• Mateja Pintarb. 1985SISlovenian para table tennis player
• Mateja Popovićb. 1987RSactor
• Mateja Zverb. 1988SISlovenian footballer

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 · 208 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mateja?

We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Mateja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Mateja have the most bearers?

We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Mateja in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mateja.

Where is Mateja most common?

Mateja is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 people carrying it.

How common is Mateja compared with other names?

In Slovenia, Mateja is the 24th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.

Is Mateja a male or female name?

Mateja is a female 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 Mateja mean?

Recorded meaning: from a derivative of Polish Mateusz, Czech Mate], or some other Slavic form of the Latin personal name Matthaeus or Mathias (see Matthew).