Matei

What Matei means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Matei yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #379 vs #6,446 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Matei?

US: Steady: #7066 in 2015, #6446 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #571 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2019, when 19 boys got the name (#4951 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 131,390 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,495 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Matei is #6446 in the US and #379 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Matei were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mahdi104 US · 54 E&W
• Matai14 US
• Matty10 US · 3 E&W
• Motti5 US · 6 E&W
• Mato9 US
• Mattew7 US
• Matao5 US
• Matey0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Matei

Boys

• Elian#147Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #147 vs #914 in 2025
• Kohen#295Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #295 vs #896 in 2025
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Emmanuel#179Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*

For a sister

• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Ella#29Short form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Serenity#129Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #129 vs #997 in 2025
• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Matei’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.