Given name & surname
Mateja
“a gift from God”
Mateja is a variant of Matea. In Hebrew use, Matea carries the interpretation “a gift from God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mateja is a variant of Matea. In Hebrew use, Matea carries the interpretation “a gift from God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mateja connects to the Matthew name family through Matea. 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 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mateja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 29 boys · 67 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 220 as a first name in 2020; 592 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.
Mateja’s family of names
Mateja has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Mateusz. Mateja has a related form in Matea.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mateja
- Mateja KežmanSerbian association football playerborn 1979
- Mateja Svetformer Yugoslavian female alpine skierborn 1968
- Mateja MatevskiMacedonian poet (1929–2018)
- Mateja Vraničar ErmanSlovene politicianborn 1965
- Mateja ZverSlovenian footballerborn 1988
- Mateja PintarSlovenian para table tennis playerborn 1985
- Mateja Šimictriathleteborn 1980
- Mateja ĐorđevićSerbian footballerborn 2003
- Mateja RobnikSlovenian alpine skierborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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