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Matheo

#751 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of the Lord, through Mateo

Matheo has been given to 2,451 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #751 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 344 recorded.

Babies named Matheo, 2025

1 in 9,640

Matheo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matheo: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of the Lord, through Mateo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matheo means

Matheo belongs to the name family reached through Matheo → Mateo. Its meaning is “gift of the Lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Matheo is used in Norwegian.

Matheo comes through Spanish Mateo, Italian Matteo and French Mathéo.

Matheo is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mateo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,451 boys were recorded with the name Matheo between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 344 in 2025; its best national rank was #751 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,285 in 2020 to #751 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,528 in 2015 to #751 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 Matheo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,640
344 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,970
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#751
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,681 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matheo 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,681 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matheo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matheos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matheo was born before 2021 — so the typical Matheo is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,451
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (1,376).

Is Matheo 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
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+534
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+777
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (344)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#751
2025

Spellings of Matheo

Matheo is not the most common spelling — Matthew is, with 84.9% against Matheo's 0.13%.

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 Matheo is used

Across 2016–2025, Matheo was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 7,587 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

127 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 3,704
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,556
  3. 3California1 in 6,250
  4. 4Colorado1 in 7,143
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,143
  6. 6Maryland1 in 7,143
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 7,143
  8. 8Arizona1 in 8,333

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.

Matheo around the world

Where Matheo 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
    2007–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2021–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    1986–2025
    #89
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #12
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #154
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Matheo

People whose public names include Matheo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Matheo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#751
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 534
Best rank ever
#751
2025
Peak year
2025
344 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,451
Count in 2025
344

Names similar to Matheo

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

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Names with a curve like Matheo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Matheo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaisenAtharvRyattBeauxEzrahWrenKaiusBowieJaxtynZakariKiaanEverest

Sibling names for Matheo

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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