Given name & surname
Mate
“gift of God”·“a gift from God”
Mate is a variant of Matthew. Interpretations include “gift of God” (Hebrew) and “a gift from God” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mate is a variant of Matthew. Interpretations include “gift of God” (Hebrew) and “a gift from God” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mate is a variant of Matthew. An origin associated with Matthew is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mate through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 75 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 843 as a first name in 2020; 1,584 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mate’s family of names
Mate has a related form in Matthew. In Greenlandic usage, Mate has a related form in Mati. In Georgian usage, Mate is a Roman-alphabet rendering of მათე.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mate has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 41
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Mateoequivalent
- Matteoequivalent
- Mathiasequivalent
- Matthiasequivalent
- Mathewequivalent
- Mattiasequivalent
- Mateusequivalent
- Mathisequivalent
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- Mattiaequivalent
- Mathieuequivalent
- Mattisequivalent
- Matveyequivalent
- Matthieuequivalent
- Mateuszequivalent
- Mattiequivalent
- Matijaequivalent
- Matthijsequivalent
- Maciejequivalent
- Mathijsequivalent
- Matejequivalent
- Madisequivalent
- Matteusequivalent
- Mateuequivalent
- Мацвейequivalent
- Matsveiequivalent
- Matiesequivalent
- Maffeoequivalent
- Матвейequivalent
- Matyášequivalent
- Matityahuequivalent
- Mazzeoequivalent
- Matjažequivalent
- מתתיהוequivalent
- Matfijequivalent
- Matfeiequivalent
- Mátyásequivalent
- Analequivalent
- Matthäusequivalent
- Matúšequivalent
- Mazhevequivalent
- Matíasequivalent
People named Mate
- Mate PavićCroatian tennis playerborn 1993
- Mate BobanBosnian Croat politician (1940-1997)
- Mate ParlovCroatian boxer and Olympic gold medalist (1948–2008)
- Mate TrojanovićYugoslavian rower (1930-2015)
- Mate BilićCroatian footballerborn 1980
- Mate VatsadzeGeorgian footballerborn 1988
- Mate RimacCroatian inventor and entrepreneurborn 1988
- Mate MalešCroatian soccer playerborn 1989
- Mate GranićCroatian politicianborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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