Mate
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Matevz, Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 320Kas Medhi
- RORomania≈1 in 12K
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 Mate 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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Máté in HU Hungary and Meti in IN India.
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)
from a pet form of the personal name Matevz, Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mate 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #193 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 54K | Máté | 157 |
| IN India | — | 4,143as Medhi | 1 in 320K | 4.1K | Meti | 77 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,292 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Mate | 52 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mate | 36 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Mate | 19 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 119 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 222as Methi | 1 in 25K | 222 | — | 7 |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Mate is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the ecclesiastical personal name Mate, Hungarian form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name Mathieu, French form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, plant
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Lithuanian, locative singular of mãtas (“measure”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, inflection of mata (“dead; thought”):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Rudolph Matéb. 1898USPolish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and producer (1898–1964)
- Reyes Mateb. 1942ESSpanish philosopher
- Miha Mateb. 1942SISlovenian writer
- Ilya Mateb. 1956UASoviet wrestler
- Dragutin Mateb. 1963SISlovenian politician
- Hunor Mateb. 1983ATAustrian swimmer
- Simão Mate Juniorb. 1988MZMozambican association football player
- Timotej Mateb. 1996SISlovenian association football player
- Patrick Mateactor
- Ioan MateRORomanian politician from Sânmihaiu de Câmpie, Bistrița-Năsăud County
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.3K | #1,569 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.3K | #1,568 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #3,337 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,177 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mate mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Matevz, Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Mate?
- In the etymology graph, Mat, Maat and Matts are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mate have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Mate in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled máté.
- How do you pronounce Mate?
- A machine transcription gives /meɪt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Mate?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,292 people named Mate, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Mate compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Mate is the 193rd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mateThe 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, “Mate” — the 193rd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.