Matteo

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: from the personal name Matteo, derivative of Latin Matthaeus or Matthias (see Matthew)

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 219(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2K
  • USUnited States1 in 19K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈290,000 people, est.

Sources
259 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 219 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Italian form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Matteo is read(measured from records)

Matteo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Italian48%

    from the personal name Matteo, derivative of Latin Matthaeus or Matthias (see Matthew).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Matthew

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Ebr. Mattityahu, 'dono di Jahvè' / 'uomo di Geova'. Forma popolare anche Mattia.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • French26%

    Italian form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Forme italienne de Matthieu, de l’hébreu Mattityah « don de Dieu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English8.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Matteo in English.

  • Spanish5.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Matteo in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matteo 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 Matteo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#356≈290,000 est.≈1 in 2192.4KMatteo156
FR France—≈20,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K37KMatteo10
US United States—17,2361 in 19K17KMatteo259
BR Brazil—6,6341 in 32K6.6K—4
CH Switzerland#616≈4,200 est.≈1 in 2K326Matteo65
SE Sweden—3,7201 in 2.7K3.7KMatteo24
MD Moldova—1,4101 in 2.4K1.4K——

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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)

Matteo is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name83 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, France, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Italian, French, Chinese

    Also written Mattéo, Маттео, Матео, Ματέο, Ματεο

  • Spanish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mattéo, Mattëõ, M̶a̶t̶t̶e̶o̶, Máttéó, Matteó

  • Polish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Mattéo, Mättëö

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mattéo

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Mattéo, Mâttêô, Màttèo

  • Arabic given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written Mattéo, Matteö

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Czechia, Slovakia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Mattéo

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mattéo

43 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)

Matteo 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.

  • From Hebrew. See }Matthew in main dictionary. Also: Mattia.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1400160018002000Matteo Maria Boiardo, b. 1441Matteo Bandello, b. 1485Matteo Ricci, b. 1552Matteo Messina Denaro, b. 1962Matteo Garrone, b. 1968Matteo Salvini, b. 1973Matteo Renzi, b. 1975Matteo Darmian, b. 1989Matteo Berrettini, b. 1996Matteo Pessina, b. 1997

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)

InformalCiao Matteo,Hi Matteo, (English)

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 106 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Matteo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202017K#1,750
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20226.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.6K#2,250
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20246.5K#180
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20204.9K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.7K#734
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.5K—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20242.4K#13
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.6K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—1.4K#299
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—382#16,954
CH SwitzerlandFSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung2024326#3

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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 Matteo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 286 thousand people named Matteo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matteo.
Where does the name Matteo come from?
Italian form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How do you pronounce Matteo?
A machine transcription gives /mattɛo/ (IPA) for Italian.
What does the name Matteo mean?
In Italian, from the personal name Matteo, derivative of Latin Matthaeus or Matthias (see Matthew).
What are other forms of the name Matteo?
In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Matteo a male or female name?
Matteo 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 common is the name Matteo?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,236 people named Matteo in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Matteo compared with other names?
In Italy, Matteo is the 356th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Matteo” — the 356th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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