Matheu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/matɛu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matheu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 945K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 69K
- ESSpain1 in 147K
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)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
352 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matheu 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 | 352 | 1 in 945K | 402 | Matheu | 138 |
| ES Spain | 340 | 1 in 147K | 340 | Matheu | 33 |
| FR France | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 220K | 25 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 306 | 1 in 149K | 306 | Matheu | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Matheu | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 49 | 1 in 353K | 61 | Matheu | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 49 | 1 in 69K | 49 | — | — |
352 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Domingo Matheub. 1765ESArgentine politician and businessman (1765-1831)
- Manuel de Ascásubíb. 1804ECnot in their usual nameActing President of Ecuador (1849-1850) / (1869)
- José María Matheu Aybarb. 1847ESSpanish writer (1847-1929)
- Francesc Matheub. 1851ESSpanish writer, businessperson and poet (1851-1938)
- Manuel de Fallab. 1876ESnot in their usual nameSpanish composer (1876–1946)
- Roser Matheu i Sadób. 1892ESSpanish poet (1892-1986)
- Zoraida Burgos i Matheub. 1933ESSpanish librarian and writer (1933-2025)
- Joan Closb. 1949ESnot in their usual nameCatalan politician
- Robert Matheub. 1955USAmerican photographer, music publicist, music historian, and author of books on popular music
- Carlos Matheub. 1985ARSpain footballer
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 402 | #55,187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 352 | #57,781 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 340 | #10,903 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 340 | #10,890 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 306 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 243 | #74,164 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 59 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 49 | #31,308 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Matheu?
- A machine transcription gives /matɛu/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Matheu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 352 people named Matheu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matheu.
- Where is Matheu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matheu is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 69 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Matheu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 352 people named Matheu in 2010, about 1 in 945 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matheuThe 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, “Matheu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.