# Mateus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mateus/  
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 | 994 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 994 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 299, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 4,304 |
| 2012 | 29 | 3,680 |
| 2013 | 33 | 3,316 |
| 2014 | 41 | 2,871 |
| 2015 | 37 | 3,131 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,099 |
| 2017 | 45 | 2,745 |
| 2018 | 49 | 2,600 |
| 2019 | 46 | 2,751 |
| 2020 | 41 | 2,910 |
| 2021 | 51 | 2,574 |
| 2022 | 38 | 3,195 |
| 2023 | 50 | 2,643 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3,028 |
| 2025 | 45 | 2,824 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,600 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,270 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,224 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,309 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## People named Mateus

- Mateus Uribe, Colombian association football player
- Mateus Galiano da Costa, Angolan association football player
- Mateus Castro, Brazilian association football player
- Mateus Lucena dos Santos, Brazilian footballer (1994-2016)
- Mateus Vital, Brazilian association football player
- Mateus Paraná, Brazilian footballer
- Mateus Ward, American actor
- Mateus Solano, Brazilian actor
- Mateus Lima Cruz, Brazilian association football player
- Mateus de Sá, Brazilian athletics competitor
- Manucho, Angolan association football player
- Tetê, Brazilian 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.