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Matviy

A Ukrainian name with a Hebrew root, "gift of god". It barely registered in Poland until the 2020s, when a wave of newborn boys arrived carrying it, though it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one.

Matviy Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
846
Newborns 2025
20
National rank
#1027

What Matviy means

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

Matviy comes from the Hebrew name Mattityahu, which means gift of God. The same root gave the Greek Matthaios and, in Ukrainian usage, the form Matviy. In Poland the name reads as Ukrainian, a shape that traveled west with families and settled into school lists and parish records.

The gift of God, in Polish dar boga, sits inside the name as its plainest sense. Matthew the Evangelist carried the Hebrew original, and his Gospel opens the New Testament. So the name arrives already attached to a book that millions have read.

Picture a class register in a Polish school, Matviy written between a Mateusz and a Michał. The forms sit close, yet the Ukrainian spelling marks this one apart. It keeps its own vowels.

A boy named Matviy carries a Hebrew meaning under a Ukrainian coat. Dar boga, gift of God, is what the name has said from the start.

How many people are named Matviy

1 in 25292 men in Poland is named Matviy. 846 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1027 among male names.

People with the name Matviy 2019 → 2025
846 +809 since 2019
2020 44 +7
2021 49 +5
2022 53 +4
2023 866 +813
2024 860 -6
2025 846 -14

Matviy's popularity over time

20 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #514 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2016.

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20 newborns with the name Matviy in 2025
national rank #514 that year

Where Matviy is most popular

Matviy is most popular in Masovian, 114% above the national average (53 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+82%) and Greater Poland (+26%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 76% and 48% below average respectively.

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Matviy as a middle name

Matviy is a first name for 846 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8260th, between Matusz (2) and Matys (2).

As a first name
846
As a middle name
2
first name 100% middle name 0%
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