Mateo

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Iman in IN India.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 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◐

Mateo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name268K records spelled Mateo29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Bahamas

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Matéo, Ímàñ, Matèo, Mateó, Mätëö

• a separate given name11K records spelled Mateo3 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Mate-O, Matéo

• Lao given name9.5K records spelled Mateo41 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Italy, Thailand, United States

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Matteo, Mattéo, Mätëö, มาเตโอ้, มาเตโอ

66 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●

Mateo 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.

• In Spanish, from the personal name Mateo (see Matthew).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Spanish, Matthew, the apostle

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

• In Spanish, Hebreo, de Matatías, vía griego y lat. Matthaeus.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Matatia

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Italian, variante regional de Matteo

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mateo Alemánb. 1547ESnovelist, writer
• Mateo Albénizb. 1755ESSpanish composer and priest (1755-1831)
• Mathieu Orfilab. 1787ESnot in their usual nameMateo Orfila y Rotger (Menorca, 1787- Paris, 1853), professor of Legal Medicine in Paris and founder of toxicology
• Práxedes Mateo Sagastab. 1825ESSpanish politician (1825–1903)
• Mateo Gilb. 1972ESSpanish film director
• Mateo Messinab. 1972USAmerican soundtrack composer
• Mateo Musacchiob. 1990ARArgentine footballer
• Mateo Kovačićb. 1994HRCroatian association football player (born 1994)
• Mateo Cassierrab. 1997COColombian footballer
• Mateo Reteguib. 1999ARItalian association football player

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 · 1,351 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mateo?

We estimate roughly 190 thousand people bear Mateo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Mateo have the most bearers?

Mateo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled mateo.

How common is Mateo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Mateo is the 171st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Mateo a male or female name?

Mateo 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 Mateo mean?

Recorded meaning: New Testament. See } Matthew in main dictionary.