Mattia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Маттиа in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, Mattía in AR Argentina and Маттіа 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●

Attested across 12 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◐

Mattia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Italian given name82K records spelled Mattia20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Switzerland

  Languages: Italian, Catalan, Romanian

  Also written Mattìa, Mãttïã, Måttia, Mättïä, Mättiä

• Spanish given name22K records spelled Mattia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mattía

• a separate given name1.6K records spelled Mattia2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Mattía

• Croatian given name881 records spelled Mattia56 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Hungarian, German

  Also written Matija, Mat, Матија, Mất, Mãt

45 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●

Mattia 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.

• In Italian, Matthias

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, do nome hebraico Matthyah; forma paralela e reduzida de Mattathyah/Matteus, latinizado em Matthias

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Italian, Variante di Mattei

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

• In Finnish, partitive singular of Matti

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mattia Pretib. 1613ITItalian painter (1613-1699)
• Mattia Battistinib. 1856ITItalian opera singer (1856–1928)
• Mattia Sbragiab. 1952ITItalian actor
• Mattia Binottob. 1969ITSwiss-born Italian engineer
• Mattia Destrob. 1991ITItalian footballer
• Mattia De Scigliob. 1992ITItalian association football player
• Mattia Perinb. 1992ITItalian association football player
• Mattia Valotib. 1993ITItalian footballer
• Mattia Caldarab. 1994ITItalian footballer
• Mattia Zaccagnib. 1995ITItalian 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 435 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mattia?

We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Mattia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Mattia have the most bearers?

Mattia is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled mattia.

How common is Mattia compared with other names?

In Italy, Mattia is the 35th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.

Is Mattia a male or female name?

Mattia 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 Mattia mean?

Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mattia, a variant of Matteo, Italian equivalent of Matthew.