Matthey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a shortened form of Matthaus (see Matthew)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Matthey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 683K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
694 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a shortened form of Matthaus (see Matthew).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matthey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 694 | 1 in 12K | 694 | Matthey | 40 |
| US United States | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 281 | Matthey | 25 |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
694 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Matthey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a derivative of Mattheus (see Matthew).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, from a pet form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)- André Mattheyb. 1779CHSwiss psychiatrist
- Jules Mattheyb. 1809CHSwiss politician (1807-1893)
- Charles-Jules Mattheyb. 1814CHSwiss politician (1814-1863)
- Charles-Henri Mattheyb. 1880CHSwiss architect
- Jeanne Mattheyb. 1886FRFrench tennis player (1886–1980)
- Pierre-Louis Mattheyb. 1893CHSwiss writer and poet (1893-1970)
- Francis Mattheyb. 1942CHSwiss politician
- Harald Mattheyb. 1957chess player
- Magdalena Mattheyb. 1971CLChilean singer-songwriter
- Giles Mattheyb. 1987GBBritish actor (born 1987)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 694 | #1,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 281 | #65,862 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 272 | #76,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 239 | #79,598 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,723 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #130,962 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #9,114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Matthey mean, and where does it come from?
- from a shortened form of Matthaus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Matthey have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 694 people named Matthey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matthey.
- Where is Matthey most common?
- Matthey is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matthey?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 694 people named Matthey in 2024, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattheyThe 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, “Matthey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.