Matti

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Matti is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Shortened form of Finnish Mattila or some other surname based on the personal name Matti, a Finnish form of Matthew.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 75◐
  • USUnited States1 in 449K
  • INIndia1 in 2.3M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈80K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
180 ●

15K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 75 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

MattiLatin · Finnish●488K records
МаттиCyrillic · Russian●765 records

Locally spelled Матти in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan and Матті in UA Ukraine.

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●

Shortened form of Finnish Mattila or some other surname based on the personal name Matti, a Finnish form of Matthew.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Matti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#1573,829△9.6K rec.1 in 75132KMatti126
SE Sweden#9333,826△673 rec.1 in 2.7K3.8KMatti55
IN India—1,396215 rec.—607Matti27
DK Denmark—1,175—1 in 5K1.2K——
EE Estonia#435907232 rec.—7Matti19
US United States—7412.4K rec.1 in 449K1.7KMatti180
GB United Kingdom—219153 rec.—listedMatti50
PK Pakistan—20399 rec.——Matti19
IT Italy—167198 rec.—5Matti23
CA Canada—117142 rec.—1Matti40
NO Norway—10791 rec.—322Matti25
RU Russia—10550 rec.——Матти29

Roughly 74K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 75). 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●

  • Finnish488K92%
  • English8.9K2%
  • German5.4K1%
  • Chinese4.3K1%
  • Danish3.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish487,76692%
English8,8952%
German5,3921%
Chinese4,2991%
Danish3,3841%

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◐

Matti is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name21K records spelled Matti8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Australia, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Mãttî, Mattì, Mattī

  • Portuguese given name9.7K records spelled Matti9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mattí, Mattï, Mätti, Mâttī, Măťťí

  • German given name8.9K records spelled Matti5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Finland, Austria, United States

    Also written Mätti, Màtti, Maetti

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Matti3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, Sweden

    Also written Mattí, Mattī

  • Telugu surname1.6K records spelled Matti17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: Telugu, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Matta, Metta, Mateti, Matte, Motta

  • Italian given name850 records spelled Matti3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Italy

    Also written Mattì, Mätti

52 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●

Matti is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a pet form of the personal name Matthaeus (see Matthew).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Finnish, a male given name from Biblical Hebrew

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

  • In German, männl. Vom., finnische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In bug, wait

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

02040601920194019601980200043 · 1962

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Matti in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2014
Yearrecords
19171
19181
19191
19201
19212
19232
19241
19251
19282
19292
19315
19325
19332
19343
19356
19366
19377
193810
193910
194010
19418
194215
194314
194418
194521
194617
194713
194827
194920
195023
195123
195218
195320
195420
195520
195631
195718
195832
195925
196020
196125
196243
196328
196425
196527
196631
196739
196834
196923
197015
197124
197226
197320
197420
197521
197615
197721
197816
19798
198022
198112
198213
198315
19846
19855
198620
19878
19883
19895
19905
19915
19923
19936
19945
19955
19961
19974
20131
20142

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1917–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Matti Järvinen, b. 1909Matti Kassila, b. 1924Paavo Väyrynen, b. 1946Matti Pellonpää, b. 1951Matti Vanhanen, b. 1955Juha Kankkunen, b. 1959Matti Nykänen, b. 1963Eicca Toppinen, b. 1975Ville Niinistö, b. 1976Jari-Matti Latvala, b. 1985

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 59 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Matti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—132K#17
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—74K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.8K#719
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.7K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,434
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#22,000
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.2K#303
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000848#26,924
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024835#1,442
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020741#11,417
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—607#7,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020382#11,417

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 361 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matti?
We estimate roughly 80 thousand people bear Matti (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Matti have the most bearers?
We estimate about 74 thousand people bear Matti in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matti.
Where is Matti most common?
Matti is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 75 people carrying it.
How common is Matti compared with other names?
In Finland, Matti is the 15th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Matti a male or female name?
Matti 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 Matti mean?
Recorded meaning: Shortened form of Finnish Mattila or some other surname based on the personal name Matti, a Finnish form of Matthew.
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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, “Matti” — the 15th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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