Matti
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matti is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 75(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.7K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.4K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75 (inferred from the name graph)
73,837 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Shortened form of Finnish Mattila or some other surname based on the personal name Matti, a Finnish form of Matthew.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Matti is read(measured from records)
Matti is one spelling over 5 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.
- Finnish35%
a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Matti in English.
- German7.7%
männl. Vom., finnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Chinese7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Matti in Chinese.
- Hindi6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Matti in Hindi.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Matti 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #16 | 73,837 | 1 in 75 | 132K | Matti | 141 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Matti | 20 |
| SE Sweden | #912 | 3,826 | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | Matti | 64 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Matti | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,183 | 1 in 5K | 1.2K | — | — |
| EE Estonia | #246 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 7 | Matti | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 322 | Matti | 26 |
73,837 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Matti is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Shortened form of Finnish Mattila or some other surname based on the personal name Matti, a Finnish form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name Matthaeus (see Matthew).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In bug, wait
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Matti Järvinenb. 1909FIathletics competitor (1909-1985)
- Matti Kassilab. 1924FIFinnish film director and screenwriter (1924–2018)
- Paavo Väyrynenb. 1946FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Matti Pellonpääb. 1951FIFinnish actor (1951–1995)
- Matti Vanhanenb. 1955FIFinnish politician and the 40th prime minister of Finland
- Juha Kankkunenb. 1959FInot in their usual nameFinnish former rally driver
- Matti Nykänenb. 1963FIFinnish ski jumper (1963–2019)
- Eicca Toppinenb. 1975FInot in their usual nameFinnish cellist
- Ville Niinistöb. 1976FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician (born 1976)
- Jari-Matti Latvalab. 1985FIFinnish rally driver
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 49 | #10,816 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #25,526 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #14,106 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,294 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Matti come from?
- Shortened form of Finnish Mattila or some other surname based on the personal name Matti, a Finnish form of Matthew. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Matti a male or female name?
- Matti 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.
- What does the name Matti mean?
- In Finnish, a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
- In which country does Matti have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Matti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matti.
- Where is Matti most common?
- Matti is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 75 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Matti?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Matti?
- In Finland, the national register counted 73,837 people named Matti, about 1 in 75 residents.
- How common is Matti compared with other names?
- In Finland, Matti is the 16th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattiThe 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, “Matti” — the 16th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.