Matea
Barely 33 women in Poland go by Matea, so most people here have never met one. It comes from Hebrew and means "gift of god".
Matea Pronunciation
Matea is pronounced mah-TE-ah (/maˈtɛa/).
What Matea means
Where Matea comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Matea reaches back to the Hebrew Mattityahu, a name built from the word for gift and a name of God. That is the same root behind its masculine form, Mateusz, the name Poland gives to the apostle who wrote a gospel. The short meaning holds to the source: gift of god, in Polish dar boga.
The name travels well among South Slavs, where Matea is a familiar feminine form. In Poland it arrives more quietly, read out in a class register between a Marta and a Maja. A child answers to it. She may later find Mateusz near her on the imieniny calendar, since the two share one Hebrew grandfather.
There is no invented saint of gentleness here. The story is plain. A Hebrew word for a gift given by God, carried into Latin as Matthaeus, then into Polish as Mateusz and Matea. The girl who holds it holds the older masculine name turned toward her, and the meaning dar boga behind it.
When Matea celebrates name day
Matea appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 20 September.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Matea
1 in 683146 women in Poland is named Matea. 33 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7022 among female names.
Matea as a middle name
Matea is a first name for 33 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2103rd, between Masza (13) and Miryam (13).
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#2101 Marharyta13
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#2102 Masza13
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#2103 Matea13
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#2104 Miryam13
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#2105 Moira13