Mathé
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
Mathé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos). Mathé is also written Μαθέ in Greek.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- HUHungary≈1 in 8.6Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mathé in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mathe in FR France, ZA South Africa, IN India and 3 more and Máthé in RO Romania.
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)- Ancient GreekΜατθαῖοςMatthaîos(measured from records)
- Aramaicמַתַּיmattay(inferred from the name graph)via Ματθαῖος
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos)
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mathé is found
(measured from records)Mathé 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #195 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Mathe | 62 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Mathe | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 535 | Mathe | 221 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | listed | Mathe | 12 |
| HU Hungary | #536 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Mathe | 57 |
| RO Romania | #598 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Máthé | 24 |
| IN India | — | 837 | 1 in 1.6M | 837 | Mathe | 65 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Édouard Mathéb. 1881FRactor (1881-1932)
- Jules Mathéb. 1915HUHungarian association football player (1915-1995)
- Georges Mathéb. 1922FRFrench immunologist (1922–2010)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mathé mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos) Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mathé?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Mathé in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mathe. After it come Congo - Kinshasa, France, Zimbabwe and Hungary; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mathé?
- In India, the national register counted 837 people named Mathé, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Mathé compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Mathé is the 195th most common surname of 285,788 surnames 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, “Mathé” — the 195th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.