Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mato isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mato through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 84 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,676 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,676 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 318 as a first name in 2020; 790 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.
Mato’s family of names
Mato has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Mateusz. In Greek usage, Mato as a surname is a transliteration of Μάτο.
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mato
- Mato NeretljakCroatian footballer (born 1979)
- Mato JajaloBosnian association football playerborn 1988
- Mato KósykSorbian poet (1853–1940)
- Mato LovrakCroatian writer for children (1899–1974)
- Mato Celestin MedovićCroatian painter (1857-1920)
- Mato DamjanovićCroatian chess grandmaster (1927–2011)
- Mato DukovacCroatian World War II fighter pilot (1918–1990)
- Mato ValtonenFinnish musician and actorborn 1955
- Mato VodopićCatholic bishop (1816-1893)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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