Mateo
Mateo sits at #8 in the United States right now, with the curve still pointing up. First recorded 1904, best year 2024, 126,693 bearers across the whole run.
Mateo’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Mateo, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Mateo since 1904
Mateo peaked in 2024 at #7; #8 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Mateo is most common
Mateo is most common in Nevada: 1.63% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. New Mexico (1.52%) and District of Columbia (1.35%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Mateo
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Mason
#39 in 2025
Mila
#43 in 2025 · Slavonic
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Millie
#73 in 2025
Maeve
#76 in 2025
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Sofia
#9 in 2025 · Greek
Lucas
#10 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with M · all names
About Mateo
How popular is the name Mateo?
Mateo sits at #8 in the United States right now, with the curve still pointing up. The chart above draws the whole run since 1904, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Mateo mean?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Mateo. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
What names go with Mateo?
Mason, Mila and Miles sit nearest to Mateo on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Mateo’s free Name Kit
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