Mateo
loc · Latin script
Meaning: New Testament. See } Matthew in main dictionary
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məteɪoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mateo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 910(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 1K
- ECEcuador1 in 503
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- 1 in 503 (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Matéo in AR Argentina.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
New Testament. See } Matthew in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mateo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 652 | 7.9K | Matéo | 131 |
| US United States | 63,143 | 1 in 5.3K | 63K | Mateo | 344 |
| ES Spain | 54,981 | 1 in 910 | 55K | Mateo | 197 |
| CO Colombia | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Mateo | 165 |
| EC Ecuador | 33,612 | 1 in 503 | 34K | Mateo | 77 |
| HR Croatia | 7,023 | 1 in 602 | 9.6K | — | — |
| AL Albania | 3,150 | 1 in 976 | 3.1K | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Mateo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, from the personal name Mateo (see Matthew).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, Matthew, the apostle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Hebreo, de Matatías, vía griego y lat. Matthaeus.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Matatia
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, variante regional de Matteo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Mateo Alemánb. 1547ESnovelist, writer
- Mateo Albénizb. 1755ESSpanish composer and priest (1755-1831)
- Mathieu Orfilab. 1787ESnot in their usual nameMateo Orfila y Rotger (Menorca, 1787- Paris, 1853), professor of Legal Medicine in Paris and founder of toxicology
- Práxedes Mateo Sagastab. 1825ESSpanish politician (1825–1903)
- Mateo Gilb. 1972ESSpanish film director
- Mateo Messinab. 1972USAmerican soundtrack composer
- Mateo Musacchiob. 1990ARArgentine footballer
- Mateo Kovačićb. 1994HRCroatian association football player (born 1994)
- Mateo Cassierrab. 1997COColombian footballer
- Mateo Reteguib. 1999ARItalian association football player
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)
Attested in 123 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 33K | #148 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33K | #148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,811 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.8K | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Mateo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Mateo in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matéo.
- Where is Mateo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mateo is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 503 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Mateo mean, and where does it come from?
- New Testament. See } Matthew in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How common is the name Mateo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 63,143 people named Mateo in 2020, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Mateo?
- A machine transcription gives /məteɪoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mateoThe 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, “Mateo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.