Matina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: strong, solid, resolute-minded

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

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

Matina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 588K
  • THThailand≈1 in 160Kas Matthana

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 Matina 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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
194 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MatinaLatin(measured from records)
มัทธนาThai(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matthana in TH Thailand.

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)

strong, solid, resolute-minded

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matina 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 Matina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈9,000 est.≈1 in 24K—Matina23
DE Germany≈570 est.≈1 in 141K—Matina60
US United States5661 in 588K564Matina194
TH Thailand≈430 est.≈1 in 160K#487,596Matthana73
GH Ghana≈230 est.≈1 in 128K—Matina6
SE Sweden711 in 144K71Matina8
AL Albania401 in 77K40——

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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Matina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Matīna

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, India

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Матина

  • Greek given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

    Also written Ματίνα, Ματινα, 'Ματίνα, 'Ματινα, Ματινά

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Nigeria

    Also written Mâtina

44 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)

Matina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, morning

    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)

19201940196019802000Matina Horner, b. 1939Matina Nikolaou, b. 1977Matina Gioti, b. 1983

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)

InformalHi Matina,

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 47 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Matina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020156#117,879
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000130#122,534
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Matina mean, and where does it come from?
strong, solid, resolute-minded Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Matina?
A machine transcription gives /mətinə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Matina a male or female name?
Matina is a female 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.
In which country does Matina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Matina in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matina.
How common is the name Matina?
In the United States, the national register counted 566 people named Matina in 2020, about 1 in 588 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Matina?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matina

The 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, “Matina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Matina parses inside a full name →