Given name · also Latin

Matejs

Matejs is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Latvian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Matejs comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.

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How it developed

From Latin Mattheus.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Matejs’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Matejs has a conventional equivalent in the English form Matthew. In Latvian usage, Matejs has a conventional equivalent in the German form Matthäus.

Walk Matejs’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Matejs, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Hebrew

Matouš

“gift of the Lord”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew

Margulis

Margulis is a surname from Hebrew.

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Hebrew

Margolyes

Margolyes is a surname from Hebrew.

No U.S. birth series

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Hebrew · Biblical

Maadai

“slippery” · “my stumble”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Marduk

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew

Manúel

“God is with us”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Magog

“place of gog” · “agent of gog”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew

Mihaels

“who is like God?”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Matejs’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Matejs