Given name
Mateusz
“gift of God”·“a gift from God”
Mateusz 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
Mateusz 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
Mateusz is a variant of Matthew. An origin associated with Matthew is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Polish use, Mateusz is used as a form of Matthew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mateusz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,156
- 1,156 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 62 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,023 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −32%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,023 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 32.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 62 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,026 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mateusz’s family of names
In Polish usage, Mateusz has a diminutive in Mateuszek. Mateusz shares a linguistic root with Matthew. In Polish usage, Mateusz has a conventional equivalent in the English form Matt.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mateusz has relatives in 29 languages.
34 related names in 29 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 60
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MateoSpanish, Venetian
- MatteoItalian
- Mathiasequivalent
- Matthiasequivalent
- Mathewequivalent
- Mattiasequivalent
- Mattheoia
- MateusPortuguese
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- Mathisequivalent
- MattEnglish
- Mattiaequivalent
- MathieuFrench
- Matveyequivalent
- Mattisequivalent
- MatthieuFrench
- Mattiequivalent
- MatoUpper Sorbian
- Maticsb, Greenlandic
- Matteusequivalent
- Matasequivalent
- Mateequivalent
- Matijaequivalent
- Matthijsequivalent
- Mathijsequivalent
- Madisequivalent
- Maciejdoublet · Polish
- Matejawym
- MatejSlovene, Upper Sorbian
- MatthaeusLatin
- MateuCatalan
- Matjažequivalent
- Matityahuequivalent
- Mazzeoequivalent
- Мацвейequivalent
- מתתיהוequivalent
- Matfijequivalent
- Matfeiequivalent
- Mátyásequivalent
- Analequivalent
- Mazhevequivalent
- Matsveiequivalent
- Matiesequivalent
- Maffeoequivalent
- Matyášequivalent
- MatíasSpanish
- MatthäusGerman
- MatoušCzech
- MátéHungarian
- МатейUkrainian
- МатвійUkrainian
- Ματθαῖοςgr
- MatúšSlovak
- МатвейRussian
- МатфейRussian
- ΜάνθοςGreek
- ΜατθαίοςGreek
- MatīssLatvian
- Matéùszcsb
- მათეGeorgian
- متىArabic
People named Mateusz
- Mateusz Morawiecki17th Prime Minister of the Republic of Polandborn 1968
- Mateusz KlichPolish association football playerborn 1990
- Mateusz WieteskaPolish association football playerborn 1997
- Mateusz PonitkaPolish basketball player (born 1993)
- Mateusz BartelPolish chess playerborn 1985
- Mateusz KusznierewiczPolish yacht racerborn 1975
- Mateusz BiskupPolish rowerborn 1994
- Mateusz PrzybylkoGerman high jumperborn 1992
- Mateusz RudykPolish cyclistborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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