Mataï

surname · Latin script

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

Mataï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 885K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1M
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3M

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.

United States (measured from records)

376 people, 2020

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 885K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matai in FR France.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mataï 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 Mataï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3761 in 885K343—4
NL Netherlands171 in 1M157—1
FR France≈2 est.≈1 in 38M—Matai34
NZ New Zealand≈2 est.≈1 in 3M15—1
CD Congo - Kinshasa———Mataï1
IN India——91—2

376 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)

Mataï is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Bulgaria, United States, Romania

    Also written מתי, מטי, Mati, Matty, מאטי

  • Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Matai

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mataï under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mataï have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 376 people named Mataï, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mataï most common?
Mataï is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 885 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mataï?
In the United States, the national register counted 376 people named Mataï in 2020, about 1 in 885 thousand residents.

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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, “Mataï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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