Given name & surname
Mattan
“gift”
Mattan is used as a given name and a surname.
Original Hebrewמתן
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Mattan means “gift.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Mattan is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew verb natan (נתן), “to give.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Mattan appears in 2 Kings 11:18, 2 Chronicles 23:17.
- 2 Kings 11:18
- 2 Chronicles 23:17
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Mattan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 51 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 10 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 7 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 161 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.
Mattan’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 15
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mattan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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