Matthieu

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Matthieu 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 French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Heb. Matityahu, 'gift of God'; apostle and evangelist.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 10 countries

#131 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
605 ●

13M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 101 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

MatthewLatin · English●11M records
МатфейCyrillic · Russian●2.8K records
מתיוHebrew · Hebrew●2K records
แมทธิวThai · Thai●373 records
ᲛეთიუGeorgian · Georgian●34 records
마태오Hangul · Korean●15 records
ΜατεοGreek · Greek●5 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matthew in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 15 more, Matteo in IT Italy, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 2 more, Mateusz in PL Poland, NO Norway 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●

From Heb. Matityahu, 'gift of God'; apostle and evangelist.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Matthieu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#401,313,91810M rec.1 in 2531.3MMatthew605
GB United Kingdom#37913,662667K rec.—70Matthew331
AU Australia#14818,591493K rec.—156Matthew352
PL Poland#33377,592△111K rec.1 in 101378KMateusz235
CA Canada#39261,063189K rec.—65Matthew272
IT Italy#23219,081202K rec.—2.4KMatteo257
FR France#187152,590284K rec.1 in 445153KMatthieu390
NG Nigeria#5682,816103K rec.——Matthew139
PH Philippines#38656,52828K rec.——Matthew144
ES Spain#96754,981△20K rec.1 in 91055KMatteo140
AR Argentina#88837,45229K rec.—7.9KMatteo62
NZ New Zealand#1434,34329K rec.—10Matthew179

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●

  • French555K96%
  • English9.3K2%
  • Dutch2.4K1%
  • Western Frisian2.1K1%
  • German1.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French555,26696%
English9,3372%
Dutch2,4211%
Western Frisian2,0611%
German1,8341%

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◐

Matthieu is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name24K records spelled Matthieu11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Canada, Germany

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Mattieu, Matthiéu, Māťthieu

  • a separate given name59 records spelled Matthieu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Mãtthįeū

54 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●

Matthieu 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 French, Matthew

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, voir Mathieu.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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●

0102030401980199020002010202036 · 1998

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Matthieu in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2025
Yearrecords
19715
19745
19768
19777
19788
19795
19809
198111
198216
198316
198418
198512
198618
198716
198817
198922
199026
199120
199218
199326
199417
199520
199621
199730
199836
199928
200020
200127
200226
200324
200428
200527
200624
200723
200836
200928
201033
201128
201233
201328
201430
201527
201621
201718
201825
201923
202017
202114
202224
202315
202413
202511

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Matthieu Ricard, b. 1946Matthieu Chabrol, b. 1956Matthieu Chedid, b. 1971Matthieu Delaporte, b. 1971Matthieu Gonet, b. 1972Matthieu Boujenah, b. 1976Adrien Ménielle, b. 1980Matthieu Delpierre, b. 1981Matthieu Dossevi, b. 1988Matthieu Rosset, b. 1990

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 64 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Matthieu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202482K#437
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.4K#864
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,291
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—688#2,616
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020299#70,545
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008267#6,250
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—258#6,785
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000236#75,938
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010222#84,463
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—180#3,694
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026151#1,566
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—142#1,528

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 362 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matthieu?
We estimate roughly 1.9 million people bear Matthieu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Matthieu have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Matthieu in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matthew.
Where is Matthieu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matthieu is densest in Poland — about 1 in 101 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Matthieu compared with other names?
In the United States, Matthieu is the 40th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Matthieu a male or female name?
Matthieu 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 Matthieu mean?
Recorded meaning: From Heb. Matityahu, 'gift of God'; apostle and evangelist.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Matthieu” — the 40th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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