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Matvii

Barely given in Poland a decade ago, it climbed fast in the 2020s and now goes to a couple hundred newborn boys a year, carried mostly by Ukrainian families. The root is Hebrew, a form of Matthew meaning "gift of God".

Matvii Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
8,082
Newborns 2025
195
National rank
#398

What Matvii means

Where Matvii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Matvii comes from Hebrew, from the name Mattityahu, which means gift of God. The same root gave Poland its Mateusz and English its Matthew. Ukrainian speakers reshaped it into Matvii, and among Ukrainian families that form holds its firmest ground.

The oldest bearer stands at the start of the New Testament. Matthew the evangelist, a tax collector before he followed Jesus, lent his name to the first gospel. A boy called Matvii joins that long line of Matthews while keeping a sound of his own.

Cross into Poland and the name travels with the families who use it. On an official form at the urząd, in the box for a first name, Matvii now sits near the Polish Mateusz. Two shapes of one word. Both go back to the Hebrew promise that a child is a gift of God.

How many people are named Matvii

1 in 2643 men in Poland is named Matvii. 8,082 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #398 among male names.

People with the name Matvii 2019 → 2025
8,082 +7,804 since 2019
2020 394 +116
2021 543 +149
2022 791 +248
2023 6,634 +5,843
2024 7,370 +736
2025 8,082 +712

Matvii's popularity over time

195 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #188 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2011.

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195 newborns with the name Matvii in 2025
national rank #188 that year

Where Matvii is most popular

Matvii is most popular in Lower Silesian, 88% above the national average (97 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+51%) and Masovian (+49%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Subcarpathian, 91% and 72% below average respectively.

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Matvii as a middle name

Matvii is a first name for 8,082 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3617th, between Matan (8) and Mazin (8).

As a first name
8,082
As a middle name
8
first name 100% middle name 0%
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