Matee

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Matee is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

  • PKPakistan≈1 in 130K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 59Kfew records
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 490Kfew records

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 people, est.

Record sources
29 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Matee 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.

Where Matee is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#588≈1,900 est.≈1 in 131KlistedMatee29
ZA South Africa—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 59K—Matee3
IN India—≈140 est.≈1 in 10M26Matee8
SA Saudi Arabia—≈72 est.≈1 in 493K—Matee5
US United States—≈50 est.≈1 in 6.8MlistedMatee7
AE United Arab Emirates—≈20 est.≈1 in 554K—Matee6

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Matee is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ma-Tee, Matée, Mátéé

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Spain, South Africa

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mátéé

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Matée

  • Bangla given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan

    Also written Ṃątéé

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Matee is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, inflection of matear:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, yerba mate (tree)

    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)
  • Nzambi Mateeb. 1992KEenvironmentalists and entrepreneur from Kenya

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)
Informalہیلو Matee،Hi Matee, (English)

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)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Matee a male or female name?
Matee 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.
Which countries have the most people named Matee?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Matee in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matee. After it come South Africa, India, Saudi Arabia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Matee?
Mondonomo estimates about 1,900 people in Pakistan have Matee as their first given name, about 1 in 131 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
How common is Matee compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Matee is the 588th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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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, “Matee” — the 588th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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