Mathey

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mathey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a variant of the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 489K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 39K
  • ARArgentina1 in 83K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

680 people, 2010

Sources
199 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a variant of the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mathey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mathey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6801 in 489K823Mathey199
AR Argentina5471 in 83K547—1
CH Switzerland2181 in 39K218Mathey24
BR Brazil661 in 3.2M66—1
NL Netherlands631 in 274K63Mathey18
BE Belgium581 in 202K58Mathey8
CR Costa Rica191 in 268K19——

680 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mathéy

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mathéy

37 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(measured from records)

Mathey 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.

  • from a regional variant of the personal name Mathieu.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Paul Mathey, b. 1844Jacques Mathey, b. 1883Georges Mathey, b. 1887Dean Mathey, b. 1890François Mathey, b. 1917Pedro Mathey, b. 1928François Mathey, b. 1941George Bell, b. 1959Juan Bell, b. 1968Kevin Quevedo, b. 1997

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(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mathey mean, and where does it come from?
from a variant of the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mathey have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 680 people named Mathey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mathey.
Where is Mathey most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mathey is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mathey?
In the United States, the national register counted 680 people named Mathey in 2010, about 1 in 489 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Mathey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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