Mateus
Most Poles have never met a Mateus: barely a hundred carry it, and every one of them is male. It comes from the Hebrew for "gift of god", a pared-down cousin of the far more common Mateusz.
Mateus Pronunciation
Mateus is pronounced mah-TE-oos (/maˈtɛus/).
What Mateus means
Where Mateus comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mateus traces back to the Hebrew Mattityahu, which pairs a word for gift with a form of the divine name. Read plainly, it means gift of God, or in Polish dar boga. The name moved through Greek Matthaios and Latin Matthaeus on its way into Polish, where it settled most often as Mateusz.
The evangelist Matthew, the tax collector who left his post to follow, gave the name its first great bearer. His feast falls on 21 September, and that date became the imieniny for boys who carry the Polish forms.
Open a Polish class register and you may find Mateusz filling the official column, while the same boy turns his head to Mati in the corridor. Mateus keeps the shorter ending. The diminutive Mati crosses borders without changing shape, and the older meaning stays fixed underneath: dar boga, gift of God.
How many people are named Mateus
1 in 207245 men in Poland is named Mateus. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3374 among male names.
Mateus's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1296 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where parents choose Mateus
Mateus is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian
+510%1 in 177,133 babies
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Masovian+510% 2 born1 in 177,133 babies+510%
Mateus as a middle name
Mateus is a first name for 103 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1453rd, between Mason (33) and Min (33).
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#1451 Marvin33
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#1452 Mason33
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#1453 Mateus33
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#1454 Min33
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#1455 Naidu33