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Matvey

#6,036 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Matthew

Matvey has been given to 319 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #6,036 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Matvey, 2025

1 in 221,000

Matvey over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matvey: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Matthew

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matvey means

Matvey is a form of Matthew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Matvey → Matthew → Matthaeus. The family’s meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Mattiṯyāhū.

Origin, language, and formation

Matvey is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 319 boys were recorded with the name Matvey between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,926 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,502 in 2020 to #6,036 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,201 in 2015 to #6,036 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 Matvey?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,036
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matvey 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matvey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matveys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matvey was born before 2016 — so the typical Matvey is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
319
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Choose a decade

2010s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Matvey 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
−460
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+466
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−835
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.7%
Peak was 2013 (26)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,926
2013

Spellings of Matvey

Matvey is not the most common spelling — Harvey is, with 33.2% against Matvey's 0.08%.

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 Matvey is used

Across 1910–2025, Matvey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 627,921 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Matvey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Matvey around the world

Where Matvey 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2022
    #5,695
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

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

Matvey by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,036
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 466
Best rank ever
#3,926
2013
Peak year
2013
26 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
319
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Matvey

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

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Sibling names for Matvey

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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