Matthiéu
given name · Latin script
Matthiéu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old French Mathieu, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of the Lord”).
- USUnited States1 in 255K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K
- ISIceland1 in 117K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,393 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Matthieu in US United States, NL Netherlands, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old FrenchMathieu(measured from records)
- LatinMatthaeus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜατθαῖοςMatthaîos(measured from records)
- Hebrewמַתִּתְיָהוּmattiṯyāhū“gift of the Lord”(measured from records)
Inherited from Old French Mathieu, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of the Lord”).
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matthiéu 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,393 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Matthieu | 63 |
| US United States | 1,304 | 1 in 255K | 1.3K | Matthieu | 162 |
| PL Poland | 151 | 1 in 254K | 151 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 107 | 1 in 467K | 107 | Matthieu | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 83 | 1 in 123K | 83 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
1,393 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Matthiéu mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old French Mathieu, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of the Lord”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Matthiéu a male or female name?
- Matthiéu 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.
- In which country does Matthiéu have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Matthiéu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matthieu.
- Where is Matthiéu most common?
- Matthiéu is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matthiéu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,393 people named Matthiéu, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matthi%C3%A9uThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Matthiéu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.