# Matej (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/matej/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 139 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 139 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 133, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | 8,764 |
| 2009 | 12 | 7,091 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,694 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,770 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,518 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,344 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,922 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,613 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,399 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,441 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,435 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,501 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,790 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,685 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,857 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | 2,097 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2010 | 16 | 1,483 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |

## People named Matej

- Matěj Kovář, Czech association football player
- Matěj Vydra, Czech association football player (born 1992)
- Matej Jonjić, Croatian association football player
- Matej Delač, Croatian footballer
- Matej Mitrović, Croatian footballer
- Matej Beňuš, Canoe slalom racer
- Matěj Švancer, Czech-Austrian freestyle skier
- Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech music educator, composer, organist and Roman Catholic priest (1684-1742)
- Matej Ninoslav, Ban of Bosnia
- Matěj Jurásek, Czech footballer
- Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech writer and journalist (1860–1927)
- Matej Jug, Football referee

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.