Given name & surname
Mateu
“gift of God”
Mateu is a masculine given name. It is used in Catalan and Galician.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mateu goes back to Latin Matthaeus, meaning “gift of God.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Mateu shares an earlier linguistic root with 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 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mateu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 6 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 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 248 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.
Mateu’s family of names
Mateu shares a linguistic root with Matthew. In Galician usage, Mateu has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Mateo. In Galician usage, Mateu has a conventional equivalent in the English form Matthew.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mateu has relatives in 4 languages.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 38
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MateoSpanish
- Matthewcognate · English
- Matteoequivalent
- Mathiasequivalent
- Matthiasequivalent
- Mathewequivalent
- Mattiasequivalent
- Mattiaequivalent
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- Mathieuequivalent
- Mattisequivalent
- Matveyequivalent
- Matthieuequivalent
- MateuszPolish
- Mattiequivalent
- Mateequivalent
- Matijaequivalent
- Matthijsequivalent
- Maciejequivalent
- Mathijsequivalent
- Matejequivalent
- Madisequivalent
- Matteusequivalent
- Mazhevequivalent
- Maffeoequivalent
- Матвейequivalent
- Matyášequivalent
- MatíasSpanish
- MatthäusGerman
- Matityahuequivalent
- Mazzeoequivalent
- Matjažequivalent
- מתתיהוequivalent
- Matfijequivalent
- Matfeiequivalent
- Mátyásequivalent
- Analequivalent
- Matúšequivalent
- Spanishequivalent
People named Mateu
- Mateu MoreySpanish footballerborn 2000
- Mateo FlechaSpanish musician1481–1553
- Mateu AlemanySpanish lawyerborn 1963
- Mateu ObradorSpanish writer (1852-1909)
- Mateo IsernSpanish politicianborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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