Matfei
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "gift of God." Russianization of Matthew
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mətfeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matfei is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 253as Matthew(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 16Kas Matthew
- CZCzechia1 in 52Kas Matthew
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matfei itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 253 (inferred from the name graph)
1,315,151 named Matthew, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Matthew
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Matthew in US United States, PL Poland, CZ Czechia and 1 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)
"gift of God." Russianization of Matthew.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matfei 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,315,151as Matthew | 1 in 253 | 1.3M | Matthew | 110 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,425as Matthew | 1 in 3.8K | 4.4K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | #405 | 2,459as Matthew | 1 in 16K | 2.5K | Matthew | 92 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,474as Matthew | 1 in 6.9K | 1.5K | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,393as Matthieu | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Matthew | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 634as Matthew | 1 in 9.3K | 634 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 515as Matthew | 1 in 1.5K | 515 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | #236 | 204as Matthew | 1 in 52K | 204 | Matthew | 70 |
1,315,151 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INEC — civil registry names; MVČR — living population register 2017; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 23 | #5,854 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #6,080 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #63,954 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Matfei mean, and where does it come from?
- "gift of God." Russianization of Matthew. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Matfei?
- A machine transcription gives /mətfeɪ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Matfei a male or female name?
- Matfei is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Matfei have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Matthew, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Matfei most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Matfei itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 253 people named Matthew.
- How common is the name Matfei?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,315,151 people named Matthew in 2020, about 1 in 253 residents.
- How common is Matfei compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Matfei is the 236th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Matfei?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matfeiThe 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, “Matfei” — the 236th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.