Mateo

At the 2020 census, 15,024 Americans bore the surname Mateo — 2,369th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,024
Rank: 2,369th
How common: 1 in 19,900
Per 100,000: 5.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mateo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 82.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 11.3%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mateo

Abraham Mateo (born 1998)Spanish singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, motochorro profesional
Clara Mateo (born 1997)French association football player

People named Mateo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mateo

Also a first name

Mateo has been given to 126,778 American babies as a first name since 1904, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.