Given name
Matrona
“lady”
Matrona is used as a given name. One Late Latin interpretation is “lady.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Late Latin interpretation is “lady.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
The story
The name’s historical associations include various early saints martyred for their faith.
Matrona through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 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 girls is 6 in 1916. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Matrona’s family of names
Matrona has an affectionate form in Matryosh(k)a. Matrona shares a linguistic root with Madrona. Matrona has a related form in Matryona.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
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 Matrona
- Matrona NikonovaRussian saint1881–1952
- Matrona of Barcelona3rd-century saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church250–300
- Matrona of Chios(+ c. 1306-1310) - Orthodox saint, abbess of the Chios monastery in Mesa Didyma, reverend, miracle worker; commemorated July 15 and October 20 old style. Greek Orthodox nun1500–1500
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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