Matteo
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matteo is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Italian form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'.
- PLPoland1 in 101◐
- AUAustralia1 in 138
- ITItaly1 in 229
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.9M ●
- #131 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 605 ●
- 1 in 101 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
13M records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Matthew in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 15 more, Mateusz in PL Poland, NO Norway, Matthieu in FR France, BE Belgium and Mathew in IN India.
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●
Italian form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #40 | 1,313,918 | 10M rec. | 1 in 253 | 1.3M | Matthew | 605 |
| GB United Kingdom | #37 | 913,662 | 667K rec. | — | 70 | Matthew | 331 |
| AU Australia | #14 | 818,591 | 493K rec. | — | 156 | Matthew | 352 |
| PL Poland | #33 | 377,592△ | 111K rec. | 1 in 101 | 378K | Mateusz | 235 |
| CA Canada | #39 | 261,063 | 189K rec. | — | 65 | Matthew | 272 |
| IT Italy | #23 | 219,081 | 202K rec. | — | 2.4K | Matteo | 257 |
| FR France | #187 | 152,590 | 284K rec. | 1 in 445 | 153K | Matthieu | 390 |
| NG Nigeria | #56 | 82,816 | 103K rec. | — | — | Matthew | 139 |
| PH Philippines | #386 | 56,528 | 28K rec. | — | — | Matthew | 144 |
| ES Spain | #967 | 54,981△ | 20K rec. | 1 in 910 | 55K | Matteo | 140 |
| AR Argentina | #888 | 37,452 | 29K rec. | — | 7.9K | Matteo | 62 |
| NZ New Zealand | #14 | 34,343 | 29K rec. | — | 10 | Matthew | 179 |
Roughly 1.3M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 253). 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●
- German198K26%
- French182K24%
- Italian168K22%
- English56K7%
- Spanish50K7%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 197,704 | 26% |
| French | 181,687 | 24% |
| Italian | 167,647 | 22% |
| English | 55,708 | 7% |
| Spanish | 50,285 | 7% |
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●
Matteo 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 Italian, from the personal name Matteo, derivative of Latin Matthaeus or Matthias (see Matthew).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From Hebrew. See }Matthew in main dictionary. Also: Mattia.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Matthew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Ebr. Mattityahu, 'dono di Jahvè' / 'uomo di Geova'. Forma popolare anche Mattia.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In French, Forme italienne de Matthieu, de l’hébreu Mattityah « don de Dieu ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1913 | 10 |
| 1914 | 12 |
| 1915 | 16 |
| 1916 | 13 |
| 1917 | 16 |
| 1918 | 15 |
| 1919 | 8 |
| 1920 | 22 |
| 1921 | 10 |
| 1922 | 25 |
| 1923 | 19 |
| 1924 | 28 |
| 1925 | 18 |
| 1926 | 17 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1928 | 23 |
| 1929 | 12 |
| 1930 | 9 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 13 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1935 | 8 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1939 | 9 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1961 | 11 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 14 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 13 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 14 |
| 1972 | 16 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 22 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 22 |
| 1989 | 28 |
| 1990 | 24 |
| 1991 | 26 |
| 1992 | 34 |
| 1993 | 34 |
| 1994 | 33 |
| 1995 | 36 |
| 1996 | 77 |
| 1997 | 106 |
| 1998 | 151 |
| 1999 | 155 |
| 2000 | 176 |
| 2001 | 175 |
| 2002 | 217 |
| 2003 | 244 |
| 2004 | 277 |
| 2005 | 306 |
| 2006 | 381 |
| 2007 | 392 |
| 2008 | 473 |
| 2009 | 600 |
| 2010 | 642 |
| 2011 | 751 |
| 2012 | 707 |
| 2013 | 798 |
| 2014 | 836 |
| 2015 | 2,171 |
| 2016 | 2,387 |
| 2017 | 2,082 |
| 2018 | 2,095 |
| 2019 | 2,161 |
| 2020 | 2,223 |
| 2021 | 2,356 |
| 2022 | 2,048 |
| 2023 | 2,517 |
| 2024 | 2,589 |
| 2025 | 2,455 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 97 years between 1911–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Matteo Maria Boiardob. 1441ITItalian writer
- Matteo Bandellob. 1485FRItalian writer
- Matteo Riccib. 1552ITItalian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
- Matteo Messina Denarob. 1962ITItalian mob boss (1962–2023)
- Matteo Garroneb. 1968ITItalian film director and screen writer (born 1968)
- Matteo Salvinib. 1973ITItalian politician (born 1973)
- Matteo Renzib. 1975ITItalian politician (born 1975)
- Matteo Darmianb. 1989ITItalian footballer (born 1989)
- Matteo Berrettinib. 1996ITItalian tennis player (born 1996)
- Matteo Pessinab. 1997ITItalian 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●
Attested in 101 sources across 45 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 909 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Matteo?
- We estimate roughly 1.9 million people bear Matteo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Matteo have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Matteo in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matthew.
- Where is Matteo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matteo is densest in Poland — about 1 in 101 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Matteo compared with other names?
- In the United States, Matteo is the 40th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Matteo a male or female name?
- Matteo 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 Matteo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Italian form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Matteo” — the 40th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.