Matija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Matthias, from Hebrew מתיתיהו (Matityahu, “gift of Yahweh”).
- HRCroatia1 in 240(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 470
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matija 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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 240 (inferred from the name graph)
17,619 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- LatinMatthias(measured from records)
- HebrewמתיתיהוMatityahu“gift of Yahweh”(measured from records)
From Latin Matthias, from Hebrew מתיתיהו (Matityahu, “gift of Yahweh”).
Sources 2
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #40 | 17,619 | 1 in 240 | 18K | Matija | 142 |
| SI Slovenia | #53 | 4,476 | 1 in 470 | 4.5K | Matija | 68 |
| RS Serbia | #199 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Matija | 53 |
| US United States | — | 2,406as Mat | 1 in 138K | 2.3K | Matija | 113 |
| ES Spain | — | 849as Mattia | 1 in 59K | 849 | Matija | 18 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #482 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Matija | 14 |
| ME Montenegro | #85 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | #8 | Matija | 24 |
17,619 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the me-monstat-census register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Matija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Matija Gubecb. 1538HRCroatian revolutionary from 16th century
- Matija Nenadovićb. 1777RSSerbian historian and politician
- Matija Murkob. 1861SISlovenian slavicist and historian
- Matija Jamab. 1872SISlovenian painter (1872–1947)
- Matija Bećkovićb. 1939RSSerbian writer
- Matija Ljubekb. 1953HRCanoe racer (1953–2000)
- Matija Škarabotb. 1988SISlovenian footballer
- Matija Nastasićb. 1993RSSerbian association football player
- Matija Sarkicb. 1997GBMontenegrin-English association football player (1997–2024)
- Matija Friganb. 2003HRCroatian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18K | #46 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 16K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 4.5K | #114 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 4.5K | #60 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 4.5K | #59 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 4.5K | #60 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 4.4K | #60 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 4.4K | #60 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 4.3K | #60 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 4.3K | #61 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 4.3K | #63 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 144 | #41,276 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Matija mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Matthias, from Hebrew מתיתיהו (Matityahu, “gift of Yahweh”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Matija have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Matija, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matija.
- Where is Matija most common?
- Matija is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 240 people carrying it.
- Is Matija a male or female name?
- Matija 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.
- What are other forms of the name Matija?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages; Matko and Tjaž are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Matija?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 17,619 people named Matija in 2021, about 1 in 240 residents.
- How common is Matija compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Matija is the 40th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Matija?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matijaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Matija” — the 40th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.