Mats

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Swedish: indefinite genitive singular of mat

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

/mats/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mats is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 161(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 767
  • FIFinland1 in 2.7K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

63,357 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
181 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 161 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MatsLatin(measured from records)
แมทิสThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

indefinite genitive singular of mat

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mats is read(measured from records)

Mats is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Swedish51%

    indefinite genitive singular of mat

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

    Mats är en nordisk (främst svensk) form av → Mattias och → Matteus. Namnet var äldst mest frekvent inom bondeståndet och tycks ha varit särskilt använt i Dalarna och Finland. Mats var under 1950-talet det fjärde vanligaste givna tilltalsnamnet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 24 februari.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • English10%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mats in English.

  • Norwegian9.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mats in Norwegian.

  • German6.0%

    männl. Vom., schwedische Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mats 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 Mats is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#2863,3571 in 16163KMats181
BJ Benin#6≈30,000 est.≈1 in 426—Mats7
NO Norway#1457,1251 in 76724KMats115
NL Netherlands#8616,3411 in 2.7K6.3KMats62
DE Germany—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 35K25Mats126
FI Finland#4382,0951 in 2.7K2.8KMats47

63,357 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Mats is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Spain, United States, Norway

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mat︠s︡

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, Benin, Norway

    Also written Mat'S, Mặt'S

  • a separate given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, India

    Also written Máts, Mạts

  • Russian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Sweden

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Мац, Матс, Matz, Матч, Матз

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mat︠s︡

  • Vietnamese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, Sweden

    Also written Mắt'S, Mặt'S

47 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)

Mats is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, (head) hair (set of keratin filaments which grow on the top of a human being's head)

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

  • In Estonian, a male given name, short for Mattias and Matteus

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

  • In got, romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃

    as a wordkaikki.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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Mats Traat, b. 1936Mats Ek, b. 1945Mats Bergman, b. 1948Mats Näslund, b. 1959Mats Magnusson, b. 1963Mats Gren, b. 1963Mats Wilander, b. 1964Mats Sundin, b. 1971Mats Hummels, b. 1988Mats Wieffer, b. 1999

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)

InformalHej Mats,Hi Mats, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 53 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Mats
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—63K#53
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202041K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24K#183
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20257.1K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—6.3K#321
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—5.9K#617
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.8K#448
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—2.1K—
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)2017378#26
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#15,452
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene202025—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20#19,088

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Is Mats a male or female name?
Mats 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 Mats mean, and where does it come from?
indefinite genitive singular of mat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Mats have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 63 thousand people named Mats, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mats.
Where is Mats most common?
Mats is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 161 people carrying it.
How do you pronounce Mats?
A machine transcription gives /mats/ (IPA) for Swedish.
What are other forms of the name Mats?
In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Mattias.
How common is the name Mats?
In Sweden, the national register counted 63,357 people named Mats, about 1 in 161 residents.
How common is Mats compared with other names?
In Sweden, Mats is the 28th most common given name of 45,482 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, “Mats” — the 28th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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