Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Matvei shares an earlier linguistic root with Matthew. An origin associated with Matthew is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matvei through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 87
- 87 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,418 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,418 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Matvei’s family of names
Matvei shares a linguistic root with Matthew.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Matvei
- Matvei IgonenEstonian association football player (born 1996)
- Matvei MichkovRussian ice hockey playerborn 2004
- Matvei PetrovRussian-Albanian artistic gymnastborn 1990
- Matvei GridinRussian ice hockey player (born 2006)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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