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Matea

#9,873 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Mateo

Matea has been given to 851 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #9,873 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Matea, 2025

1 in 332,000

Matea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matea: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Mateo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matea means

Matea is a feminine form of Mateo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Matea → Mateo → Mateo. The family’s meaning is “gift of the Lord”, recorded in Spanish with the source elements mattiṯyāhū.

Origin, language, and formation

Matea is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mateo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 851 girls were recorded with the name Matea between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,248 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,263 in 2020 to #9,873 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,773 in 2015 to #9,873 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Matea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,873
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mateas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matea was born before 2007 — so the typical Matea is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
846
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Choose a decade

2000s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (360).

Is Matea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,554
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,610
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,100
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.6%
Peak was 2006 (51)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,248
2006

Spellings of Matea

Matea is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 28.8% against Matea's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Matea is used

Across 1910–2025, Matea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 558,139 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Matea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Matea around the world

Where Matea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #4,692
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Matea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,873
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,610
Best rank ever
#3,248
2006
Peak year
2006
51 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
851
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Matea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Matea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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