Mataio
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- mah-TY-oh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Mataio is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “gift of God”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Mataio mean?
Hebrew: Samoan and Hawaiian form of Matthew
“gift of God”
Used for the Gospel of Matthew in the Samoan and Hawaiian Bibles.
Is Mataio a girl's or a boy's name?
Mataio is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mataio in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Mataio, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2013, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Mataio in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mataio in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,515 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
Names like Mataio
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Thiago, Mikko, Mateo, Kairo, Tru, Makaio, Messiah, Azriel, Aziel, Mathias, Maximus, Kenzo
Names related to Mataio
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mataio: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mataio, updated 20 October 2026.