Given name & surname · also Ancient Greek
Matthaeus
“gift of YHWH (the Lord)”
Matthaeus is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Matthaeus goes back to a word meaning “gift of YHWH (the Lord).”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Matthaeus comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος, from Aramaic מַתַּי (mattay).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matthaeus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 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 5 in 2016. 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.
Matthaeus’s family of names
In English usage, Matthaeus as a surname has an affectionate form in MATOS. In Latin usage, Matthaeus has a later derivative in Matthew. In Latin usage, Matthaeus has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Mateo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Matthaeus has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
14 related names in 16 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Matthaeus
- Matthaeus PipelareFlemish composer1450–1515
- Matthaeus PlateariusPlatearius, Matthaeus, -1161
- Matthaeus GreuterGerman-French-Italian engraver, etcher, and publisher (1566-1638)1564–1638
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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