Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mattew 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 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mattew through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,234
- 1,234 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 58 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,316 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,316 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 36.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 58 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,326 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.
Mattew’s family of names
In Maltese usage, Mattew has a conventional equivalent in the German form Matthäus.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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