Given name & surname
Matina
Matina is a feminine given name from Malagasy. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 366
- 0 boys · 366 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,429 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,429 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 566 as a first name in 2020; 156 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.
Matina’s family of names
In Danish usage, Matina has a conventional equivalent in the German form Martina.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Matina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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