Mateus
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mateus is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mateus (see Matthew).
- BRBrazil1 in 444◐
- AOAngola1 in 958
- PTPortugal1 in 1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈480K ●
- #391 ●
- Sources
- 209 ●
- 1 in 444 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
248K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mateu in ES Spain, AR Argentina, FR France and 11 more.
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●
from the personal name Mateus (see Matthew).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #72 | 476,684△ | 184K rec. | 1 in 444 | 589K | Mateus | 209 |
| AR Argentina | — | 9,127 | 7.1K rec. | — | 1.1K | Mateu | 48 |
| PT Portugal | #137 | 8,071 | 4K rec. | — | 908 | Mateus | 117 |
| FR France | — | 4,512 | 2.8K rec. | — | 214 | Mateu | 164 |
| AO Angola | #16 | 2,348 | 3K rec. | — | — | Mateus | 50 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,856 | 18K rec. | 1 in 27K | 10K | Mateu | 142 |
| CO Colombia | — | 1,816 | 11K rec. | — | 20 | Mateus | 104 |
| UY Uruguay | #917 | 1,292 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Mateu | 21 |
| US United States | — | 1,290 | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 258K | 1.3K | Mateus | 179 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 738 | 403 rec. | — | — | Mateu | 20 |
| MX Mexico | — | 638 | 736 rec. | — | — | Mateu | 37 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 571 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Mateu | 23 |
Roughly 477K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 444). 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●
- Portuguese6.3M93%
- English482K7%
- Spanish5.4K1%
- ptbr2.8K1%
- French2.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 6,276,276 | 93% |
| English | 481,650 | 7% |
| Spanish | 5,380 | 1% |
| ptbr | 2,794 | 1% |
| French | 2,568 | 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●
Mateus 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 Portuguese, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Matthew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Portuguese form of Matthew.
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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 |
|---|---|
| 1903 | 3 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1906 | 3 |
| 1910 | 3 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1913 | 1 |
| 1915 | 2 |
| 1917 | 2 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 3 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 8 |
| 1930 | 6 |
| 1931 | 6 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 9 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 6 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 6 |
| 1944 | 8 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 9 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 9 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 12 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 15 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 15 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 15 |
| 1977 | 12 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 17 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 5 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 115 years between 1903–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mateus Fernandesb. 1401PTPortuguese architect
- Manuchob. 1983AOnot in their usual nameAngolan association football player
- Mateus Galiano da Costab. 1984AOAngolan association football player
- Estemanb. 1984COnot in their usual nameColombian singer
- Mateus Uribeb. 1991COColombian association football player
- Mateus Castrob. 1994BRBrazilian association football player
- Mateus Lucena dos Santosb. 1994BRBrazilian footballer (1994-2016)
- Mateus Vitalb. 1998BRBrazilian association football player
- Mateus Wardb. 1999USAmerican actor
- Tetêb. 2000BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian 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●
Attested in 77 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 589K | #52 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 477K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 473K | #49 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 27K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.3K | #49 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,154 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2023 | 908 | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 892 | #27,144 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 763 | #5,607 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 763 | #5,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 688 | #31,738 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 474 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mateus?
- We estimate roughly 480 thousand people bear Mateus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mateus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 477 thousand people bear Mateus in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mateus.
- Where is Mateus most common?
- Mateus is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 people carrying it.
- How common is Mateus compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mateus is the 72nd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Mateus a male or female name?
- Mateus 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 Mateus mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mateus (see Matthew).
Query this name via API
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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, “Mateus” — the 72nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.