Mateus

given name · Latin script

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

Mateus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mateus (see Matthew).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 444(measured from records)
  • AOAngola≈1 in 1.5K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 3.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

476,684 people, 2022

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name Mateus (see Matthew).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mateus 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 Mateus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#127476,6841 in 444589KMateus213
MZ Mozambique#18≈36,000 est.≈1 in 831—Mateus34
AO Angola#21≈21,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Mateus57
PT Portugal#292≈2,900 est.≈1 in 3.6K908Mateus126
US United States—1,2911 in 258K1.3KMateus197
NO Norway—≈130 est.≈1 in 43K212—13

476,684 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Mateus is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Matéus, Mätëüs, Mateuš, Mätęüs, Mátêús

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Angola, United States

    Also written Matéus, Matèus, Mateüs, Mateùs, Mâtêûš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mateús, Matéus

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Angola

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Måtęus

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Mateuš

  • Norwegian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Måtëüs

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain

    Also written Mateuš

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(measured from records)

Mateus 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 Portuguese, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Matthew

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

  • In English, Portuguese form of Matthew.

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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)

1400160018002000Mateus Fernandes, b. 1401Manucho, b. 1983Mateus Galiano da Costa, b. 1984Esteman, b. 1984Mateus Uribe, b. 1991Mateus Castro, b. 1994Mateus Lucena dos Santos, b. 1994Mateus Vital, b. 1998Mateus Ward, b. 1999Tetê, b. 2000

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 80 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Mateus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—589K#52
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022477K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—473K#49
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202027K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.3K#49
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,379
PT PortugalIRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023)2023908#12
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—212#4,612
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202545—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201#10,379
PT PortugalIRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos———

Reference works 6

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

In which country does Mateus have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 477 thousand people named Mateus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mateus.
Where is Mateus most common?
Mateus is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 people carrying it.
What does the name Mateus mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Mateus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Mateus?
In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Mateus a male or female name?
Mateus 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.
How common is the name Mateus?
In Brazil, the national register counted 476,684 people named Mateus in 2022, about 1 in 444 residents.
How common is Mateus compared with other names?
In Brazil, Mateus is the 127th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mateus” — the 127th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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