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Mateusz

#8,019 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Matthaeus

Mateusz has been given to 1,156 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #8,019 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Mateusz, 2025

1 in 332,000

Mateusz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mateusz: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Matthaeus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mateusz means

Mateusz belongs to the name family reached through Mateusz → Matthaeus. Its meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mateusz is used in Polish.

Mateusz comes through Latin Matthaeus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthew, Maciej and Matthaeus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Mateusz is pronounced /maˈtɛ.uʂ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,156 boys were recorded with the name Mateusz between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,714 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,209 in 2020 to #8,019 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,645 in 2015 to #8,019 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 Mateusz?

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 boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,019
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mateusz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Mateusz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mateuszs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mateusz was born before 2003 — so the typical Mateusz is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,156
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (505).

Is Mateusz 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
+5,502
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,190
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,374
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 2008 (62)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,714
1997

Spellings of Mateusz

Mateusz is not the most common spelling — Matheus is, with 44.0% against Mateusz's 30.1%.

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 Mateusz is used

Across 1910–2025, Mateusz was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 57,594 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mateusz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mateusz around the world

Where Mateusz 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
    1996–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2014
    #346
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2005–2022
    #657
    in 2022
  • France
    1985–2022
    #5,572
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #365
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1963–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mateusz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,019
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,190
Best rank ever
#1,714
1997
Peak year
2008
62 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,156
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Mateusz

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

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Sibling names for Mateusz

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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