Mateús
surname · Latin script
Mateús is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Mateus, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ.
- BRBrazil1 in 444(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.5K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)
476,684 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mateus in BR Brazil, US United States, AO Angola and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Galician-PortugueseMateus(measured from records)
- LatinMatthaeus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜατθαῖοςMatthaîos(measured from records)
- Hebrewמַתִּתְיָהוּ(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese Mateus, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mateús counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #127 | 476,684 | 1 in 444 | 589K | Mateus | 213 |
| MZ Mozambique | #18 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 831 | — | Mateus | 34 |
| AO Angola | #21 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mateus | 57 |
| PT Portugal | #292 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 908 | Mateus | 126 |
| US United States | — | 1,291 | 1 in 258K | 1.3K | Mateus | 197 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 212 | — | 13 |
476,684 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mateús mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese Mateus, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Mateús have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 477 thousand people named Mateús, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mateus.
- Where is Mateús most common?
- Mateús is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mateús?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 476,684 people named Mateús in 2022, about 1 in 444 residents.
- How common is Mateús compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mateús is the 127th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mate%C3%BAsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mateús” — the 127th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.