Matheo
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matheo is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In French Guiana it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From an archaic spelling of the Spanish Mateo and Italian Matteo in the 2000s, partly through the equally fashionable French Mathéo.
- FRFrance1 in 1.2K◐
- GFFrench Guiana1 in 1.1K
- NONorway1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈68K ●
- Sources
- 208 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 14 countries
42K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
From an archaic spelling of the Spanish Mateo and Italian Matteo in the 2000s, partly through the equally fashionable French Mathéo. Reinforced by the existence of the old Norwegian female name Mathea.
Sources 2
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #396 | 55,130 | 41K rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 55K | Matheo | 208 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,893△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 14K | — | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,749△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 6.1K | 2.7K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,672△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 3.8K | 2.7K | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,111 | — | 1 in 5.3K | 1.1K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 974△ | 91 rec. | 1 in 342K | 974 | Matheo | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 753 | — | 1 in 281K | 753 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 605 | 591 rec. | — | — | Matheo | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 397△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 126K | 397 | Matheo | 11 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #383 | 362 | 14 rec. | — | 10 | Matheo | 8 |
| MQ Martinique | #401 | 346 | 11 rec. | — | 10 | Matheo | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 182 | 0 rec. | 1 in 31K | 205 | — | 1 |
Roughly 55K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 1.2K). 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●
- French221K67%
- Spanish67K20%
- Norwegian Bokmål14K4%
- English7.3K2%
- German6.2K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 221,299 | 67% |
| Spanish | 66,788 | 20% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 14,400 | 4% |
| English | 7,337 | 2% |
| German | 6,245 | 2% |
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●
Matheo 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 Norwegian, a male given name of modern usage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of Mathēus
as a wordkaikki.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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1969 | 1 |
| 1991 | 1 |
| 1992 | 1 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 23 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 27 |
| 2003 | 42 |
| 2004 | 40 |
| 2005 | 36 |
| 2006 | 50 |
| 2007 | 61 |
| 2008 | 65 |
| 2009 | 98 |
| 2010 | 97 |
| 2011 | 121 |
| 2012 | 98 |
| 2013 | 109 |
| 2014 | 86 |
| 2015 | 110 |
| 2016 | 156 |
| 2017 | 167 |
| 2018 | 163 |
| 2019 | 193 |
| 2020 | 209 |
| 2021 | 179 |
| 2022 | 206 |
| 2023 | 198 |
| 2024 | 164 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 35 years between 1969–2024. 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 Flecha el Jovenb. 1530ESnot in their usual nameSpanish composer
- Matheo Capellib. 1972FRFrench actor
- Mathéo Jacquemoudb. 1990FRFrench ski mountaineer
- Mathéo Tuscherb. 1996CHracing driver for Rebellion Racing in the World Endurance Championship
- Matheo Raabb. 1998DEGerman association football player
- Mathéo Vromanb. 2001FRFrench footballer
- Mathéo Parmentierb. 2002BEBelgian association football player
- Mathéo Bodmerb. 2004FRFrench association football player
- Mathéo Moussab. 2005FRGabonese footballer
- Mathéo BoisselierFRFrench actor
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 62 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14K | #318 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.5K | #1,392 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 3.9K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.7K | #394 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.7K | #897 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #56 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.3K | #115 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.1K | #313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 974 | #12,697 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 753 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 748 | #10,076 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 510 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Matheo?
- We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Matheo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Matheo have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 55 thousand people bear Matheo in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matheo.
- How common is Matheo compared with other names?
- In France, Matheo is the 396th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Matheo a male or female name?
- Matheo 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 Matheo mean?
- Recorded meaning: From an archaic spelling of the Spanish Mateo and Italian Matteo in the 2000s, partly through the equally fashionable French Mathéo.
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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, “Matheo” — the 396th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.