Matteo
The boy's name Matteo has been in the national records since 1911, with 33,499 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 146th. About 33,000 Matteos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Matteo boys named Matteo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 33,499
- Estimated living today
- 33,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 138th
- Rank in 2025
- 146th
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 16 / 33,483
How old the living Matteos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 33,499 babies given the name since 1911, about 33,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 30,000 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Matteos
- Matteo Renzi (born 1975)Italian politician
- Matteo Salvini (born 1973)Italian politician
- Matteo Ricci (1552–1610)Italian Catholic missionary
- Matteo Darmian (born 1989)Italian footballer
- Mattéo Guendouzi (born 1999)French footballer
- Matteo Zuppi (born 1955)Italian archbishop
- Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1495)Italian writer
- Matteo Pessina (born 1997)Italian association football player
People named Matteo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matteo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matteo is most concentrated in Nevada (4.0×), Arizona (2.6×), Florida (2.3×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Matteo peaked:
Matteo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Matteo | 163,247 | — |
| France boys | Mattéo +2 spellings | 44,230 | 20th |
| Belgium boys | Matteo +1 spelling | 8,735 | 21st |
| Switzerland boys | Matteo +1 spelling | 7,622 | 3rd |
| Austria boys | Matteo | 5,541 | 13th |
| Sweden boys | Matteo | 4,259 | 8th |
| England and Wales boys | Matteo | 3,824 | 160th |
| Poland boys | Matteo | 550 birth registrations | 177th |
| Italy girls | Matteo | 524 | — |
| Norway boys | Matteo | 479 | 133rd |
| Ireland boys | Matteo | 359 | 125th |
| Scotland boys | Matteo | 204 | 166th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Matteo | 41 | 202nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Matteo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matteo | 4,659 | 0.374% | 2nd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Mattéo | 20 | 0.002% | 932nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matteo | 1,982 | 0.456% | 7th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mattéo | 286 | 0.066% | 79th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Matteo | 661 | 1.014% | 1st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Matteo | 13 | 0.350% | 4th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Mattéo | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Matteo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 1.01% of children were given it – 632 of them.
Matteo: rank by region
In 2025, Matteo was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Matteo | 10 | 196 |
| Flanders | Mattéo | 355 | 16 |
| Wallonia | Matteo | 59 | 51 |
| Wallonia | Mattéo | 123 | 23 |
| Brussels | Matteo | 40 | 20 |
In 2024, Matteo was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 13 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Matteo | 7 | 2 |
| Molise | Matteo | 9 | 14 |
In 2025, Matteo was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Matteo | 243 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Matteo | 183 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Matteo | 164 | 10 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Matteo appears in the lists for Centro (10th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matteo appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (Matteo, 3rd), Province of East Flanders (Matteo, 8th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Matteo, 10th), Province of West Flanders (Matteo, 15th), Province of Antwerp (Matteo, 21st), Province of Liège (Matteo, 30th), Brussels-Capital Region (Matteo, 40th), Province of Hainaut (Matteo, 57th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Matteo, 64th), Province of Liège (Mattéo, 117th) and Province of Hainaut (Mattéo, 131st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Matteo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 594 | 27th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Matteo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Matteo | 210 | 440 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Matteo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,613 men called Matteo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Matteo | 248 | 0.465 | 246 |
| Palmas, Las | Matteo | 239 | 0.411 | 269 |
| Balears, Illes | Matteo | 183 | 0.294 | 317 |
| Barcelona | Matteo | 750 | 0.257 | 323 |
| Valencia/València | Matteo | 271 | 0.200 | 406 |
| Madrid | Matteo | 661 | 0.194 | 367 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Matteo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.