Matea
The girl's name Matea has been in the national records since 1922, with 851 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 840 Mateas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Matea
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 851
- Estimated living today
- 840
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 3,224th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1922
How old the living Mateas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 851 babies given the name since 1922, about 840 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mateas
- Matea Jelić (born 1997)Croatian taekwondo practitioner
- Matea Parlov (born 1992)long distance runner from Croatia
People named Matea with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matea is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matea is most concentrated in California (7.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Matea peaked:
Matea elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Matea +1 spelling | 315 | 1,208th |
| Switzerland girls | Matea | 218 | 354th |
| France boys | Matea | 50 | 6,134th |
| England and Wales girls | Matea | 18 | 3,519th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Matea: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Matea | 191 | 0.015% | 305th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Matea | 19 | 0.004% | 485th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Matea | 7 | 0.011% | 120th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Matea | 1 | 0.027% | 7th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Matea is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.02% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Matea by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 15 | 425th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Where Matea lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 365 women called Matea were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salamanca | Matea | 16 | 0.094 | 705 |
| Ávila | Matea | 7 | 0.088 | 768 |
| Huelva | Matea | 20 | 0.074 | 887 |
| Ciudad Real | Matea | 13 | 0.052 | 964 |
| Toledo | Matea | 17 | 0.045 | 1,208 |
| Cáceres | Matea | 8 | 0.041 | 1,171 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Matea against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.