# Mateo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mateo/  
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 | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /məˈteɪoʊ/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 126,778 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 126,693 / 85 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,874, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Spanish Mateo, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū). Doublet of Matthew.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | 11,637 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,287 |
| 2015 | 7 | 13,970 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,297 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,761 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,644 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,869 |
| 2023 | 18 | 6,579 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,645 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,679 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,204 | 171 |
| 2012 | 2,840 | 137 |
| 2013 | 3,588 | 109 |
| 2014 | 3,743 | 106 |
| 2015 | 5,029 | 85 |
| 2016 | 6,559 | 59 |
| 2017 | 7,774 | 42 |
| 2018 | 8,221 | 37 |
| 2019 | 9,022 | 26 |
| 2020 | 9,007 | 20 |
| 2021 | 9,181 | 15 |
| 2022 | 10,397 | 11 |
| 2023 | 11,293 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11,349 | 7 |
| 2025 | 11,045 | 8 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 57 | 602 |
| 2012 | 50 | 671 |
| 2013 | 55 | 621 |
| 2014 | 59 | 597 |
| 2015 | 73 | 526 |
| 2016 | 86 | 470 |
| 2017 | 138 | 345 |
| 2018 | 152 | 311 |
| 2019 | 180 | 269 |
| 2020 | 247 | 203 |
| 2021 | 242 | 217 |
| 2022 | 277 | 184 |
| 2023 | 323 | 161 |
| 2024 | 282 | 178 |
| 2025 | 328 | 160 |

## People named Mateo

- Mateo Kovačić, Croatian association football player (born 1994)
- Mateo Musacchio, Argentine footballer
- Mateo Pavlović, association footballer
- Mateo Cassierra, Colombian footballer
- Matéo Maximoff, French writer (1917–1999)
- Mateo Klimowicz, Argentine-German footballer
- Mateo Sušić, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
- Mateo García, Argentine footballer
- Mateo Barać, association football player
- Mateo Tanlongo, Argentine professional footballer
- Mateo Pellegrino, Argentine professional footballer
- Mateo Silvetti, Argentine footballer

## 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.