Matthieu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Heb. Matityahu, 'gift of God'; apostle and evangelist
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/matjø/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matthieu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 54th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.2Kas Mathew
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.4Kas Matthews
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matthieu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #649 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 556 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
131,303 named Matthews, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Matthews in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more and Mathew in IN India, NG Nigeria, KW Kuwait and 1 more.
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)
From Heb. Matityahu, 'gift of God'; apostle and evangelist.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matthieu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #199 | 131,303as Matthews | 1 in 2.5K | 1.3M | Matthews | 556 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Mathew | 95 |
| IN India | — | 56,090as Mathew | 1 in 24K | 56K | Mathew | 187 |
| GB United Kingdom | #98 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 70 | Matthews | 328 |
| ZA South Africa | #306 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Matthews | 110 |
| AU Australia | #108 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 156 | Matthews | 253 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mathew | 107 |
| NZ New Zealand | #101 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 10 | Matthews | 142 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Mathew | 54 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 153K | Matthieu | 404 |
| JM Jamaica | #54 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Matthews | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 66 | 1 in 262K | 2.6K | Matthieu | 62 |
131,303 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Matthieu 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 French, Matthew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, voir Mathieu.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Matthieu Ricardb. 1946FRFrench writer and Buddhist monk
- Matthieu Chabrolb. 1956FRFrench composer
- Matthieu Chedidb. 1971FRFrench musician
- Matthieu Delaporteb. 1971FRFrench film director
- Matthieu Gonetb. 1972FRFrench pianist
- Matthieu Boujenahb. 1976FRFrench comedian
- Adrien Ménielleb. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench screen writer, actor and artist
- Matthieu Delpierreb. 1981FRFrench footballer
- Matthieu Dossevib. 1988FRFrench and Togolese association football player
- Matthieu Rossetb. 1990FRFrench diver (1990-)
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)
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 64 sources across 35 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Matthieu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Heb. Matityahu, 'gift of God'; apostle and evangelist. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Matthieu a male or female name?
- Matthieu 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 do you pronounce Matthieu?
- A machine transcription gives /matjø/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Matthieu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 131 thousand people named Matthews, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Matthieu?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Matthieu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 66 people named Matthieu in 2007, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Matthieu compared with other names?
- In the United States, Matthieu is the 199th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Matthieu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matthieuThe 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, “Matthieu” — the 199th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.