Matteo
The 2025 national count puts Matteo at #146, right at the top of its own curve. First recorded 1911, best year 2024, 33,483 bearers across the whole run.
What Matteo carries
Matteo · Hebrew
“gift of the Lord”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
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Five printables for Matteo, 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.
Matteo since 1911
Matteo peaked in 2024 at #138; #146 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Matteo is most common
Matteo is most common in Rhode Island: 0.38% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Nevada (0.37%) and Connecticut (0.36%) 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 Matteo
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zara
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Simon
#230 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abel
#231 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Naomi
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Matteo
How popular is the name Matteo?
The 2025 national count puts Matteo at #146, right at the top of its own curve. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1911.
Does Matteo have a meaning on record?
The reference we cite records “gift of the Lord”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Matteo?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Micah sits closest, with Jude and Judah just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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