Matan
Hebrew for "gift". Fewer than 200 men in Poland carry it, all of them male, so most Poles have never met one.
Matan Pronunciation
Matan is pronounced MAH-tahn (/ˈmatan/).
What Matan means
Where Matan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Matan comes from Hebrew, where the word matan means "gift." In Jewish tradition the same word names a central moment, Matan Torah, the giving of the Law at Sinai. So the name sits close to something handed over, something given freely.
The name stays plain. It has no diminutives, no softened variants, no feminine or masculine twin. What a child receives is the noun itself, unaltered.
Among Jewish families the name reads clearly, since anyone who knows the liturgy hears "gift" without translation. On a Polish class register, Matan would stand near Mateusz and Marcin, close in sound yet different in root. Mateusz traces back to a Hebrew name meaning "gift of God"; Matan holds the shorter idea, the gift alone.
For the people who carry it, the meaning needs no gloss. A gift. In Polish, dar.
How many people are named Matan
1 in 126309 men in Poland is named Matan. 169 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2466 among male names.
Matan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Matan as a middle name
Matan is a first name for 169 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3616th, between Malachiasz (8) and Matvii (8).
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#3614 Maksymilan8
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#3615 Malachiasz8
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#3616 Matan8
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#3617 Matvii8
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#3618 Mazin8