Matome
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matome is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.6K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 30M
- FRFrance1 in 106M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 24K ●
- Sources
- 35 ●
in 5 countries
23K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #106 | 21,484 | 23K rec. | — | — | Matome | 35 |
| US United States | — | 16 | 37 rec. | — | — | Matome | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7 | 10 rec. | — | — | Matome | 3 |
| FR France | — | 5 | 8 rec. | — | — | Matome | 6 |
| ZM Zambia | — | — | 2 rec. | — | 1 | — | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English11K47%
- Swahili5.1K22%
- Southern Sotho1.9K8%
- English (South Africa)1.3K6%
- French6323%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 11,055 | 47% |
| Swahili | 5,122 | 22% |
| Southern Sotho | 1,891 | 8% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,305 | 6% |
| French | 632 | 3% |
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●
Matome 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 Lithuanian, first-person plural present of matyti
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 1 | #42 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Matome?
- Our records include 23,579 bearers of Matome across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Matome have the most bearers?
- Matome is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled matome.
- How common is Matome compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Matome is the 106th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Matome a male or female name?
- Matome 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.
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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, “Matome” — the 106th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.