Matteus
Matteus was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 215 Americans have been recorded with it between 1999 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matteus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matteus mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Matteus is “a male given name, rare in this form. Normal given name forms: Matias, Matti” Its etymology gives the sense “gift of God” (literally).
From Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of God”).
/ˈmɑtːeus/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matteus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,117, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2007, the peak
Matteus peaked in 2007, when 16 boys were given it, #5,599 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,117 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,466 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,379 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,363 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,650 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,653 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,957 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,500 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,845 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,344 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #7,894 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,402 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,876 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,932 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,986 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,042 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,599 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,986 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,936 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,340 | 4.0 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,651 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,989 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matteus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matteus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Matteus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matteus, and how old are they?
An estimated 213 Americans named Matteus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 212 people named Matteus (0 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,356 babies since 1880, Matteus is the fourth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 223 babies recorded by SSA was a Matteus (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Matteus
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Matteus and names like it
- Compare Matteus and MattiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMatteus peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matteus since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Matteus: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Matteus.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Matteus alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.