Matea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Regalo divino
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Matea is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 424(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.5Kfew records
- RSSerbia≈1 in 14Kfew records
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 Matea itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)
9,973 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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)Regalo divino
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matea 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 | #143 | 9,973 | 1 in 424 | 10K | Matea | 96 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Matea | 14 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 10 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #351 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Matea | 25 |
| MK North Macedonia | #293 | 1,786as Матеа | 1 in 1.2K | 1.8K | Matea | 9 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Matea | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 96 | 1 in 22K | 100 | Matea | 6 |
9,973 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); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)Matea 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 tkl, to recognise
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)- Matea Čičab. 1985HRbadminton player
- Matea Mezakb. 1985HRCroatian female tennis player
- Matea Vrdoljakb. 1985HRCroatian basketball player (born 1985)
- Matea Ferkb. 1987HRCroatian alpine skier
- Matea Ikićb. 1989HRCroatian volleyball player
- Matea Parlovb. 1992HRlong distance runner from Croatia
- Matea Jelićb. 1997HRCroatian taekwondo practitioner
- Matea Bošnjakb. 1997DECroatian association football player
- Matea Pletikosićb. 1998HRCroatian-Montenegrin handball player
- Matea Sumajstorčićb. 1999HRCroatian swimmer
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)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)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Matea?
- In the etymology graph, Mateja, Mattea and Mathea are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Matea a male or female name?
- Matea is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB), Spain (INE) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), among others.
- What does the name Matea mean, and where does it come from?
- Regalo divino Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- In which country does Matea have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 10.0 thousand people named Matea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matea.
- Where is Matea most common?
- Matea is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 424 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matea?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 9,973 people named Matea in 2021, about 1 in 424 residents.
- How common is Matea compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Matea is the 143rd most common given name of 14,066 given names 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/mateaThe 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, “Matea” — the 143rd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.