Matija

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mattia in IT Italy, Mat in MY Malaysia and Матија 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 8 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◐

Matija is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name777 records spelled Matija4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Serbia, Slovenia, United States

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written মাতিজা

36 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●

Matija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 33 years between 1992–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Matija Gubecb. 1538HRCroatian revolutionary from 16th century
• Matija Nenadovićb. 1777RSSerbian historian and politician
• Matija Murkob. 1861SISlovenian slavicist and historian
• Matija Jamab. 1872SISlovenian painter (1872–1947)
• Matija Bećkovićb. 1939RSSerbian writer
• Matija Ljubekb. 1953HRCanoe racer (1953–2000)
• Matija Škarabotb. 1988SISlovenian footballer
• Matija Nastasićb. 1993RSSerbian association football player
• Matija Sarkicb. 1997GBMontenegrin-English association football player (1997–2024)
• Matija Friganb. 2003HRCroatian 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 · 267 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matija?

We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Matija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Matija have the most bearers?

We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Matija in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matija.

Where is Matija most common?

Matija is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 240 people carrying it.

How common is Matija compared with other names?

In Croatia, Matija is the 42nd most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Matija a male or female name?

Matija 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 Matija mean?

Recorded meaning: From Latin Matthias, from Hebrew מתיתיהו (Matityahu, “gift of Yahweh”).