Mattea
Feminine · “gift of God”
Mattea is the Italian feminine of Matteo, and Matteo is Matthew, which is a Hebrew sentence about a gift from God. Italian makes feminines by changing the final vowel, so the name is built the way the language builds everything, without ceremony.
How old is the name Mattea?
Mattea first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Mattea alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,800 people named Mattea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mattea most popular?
Mattea peaked in 2006, reaching #1878 nationally. Today it ranks #4987, 3,109 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mattityahu to Mattea
The story of Mattea
Matthew was among the most-given names in medieval Europe, carried by the evangelist whose Gospel opens the New Testament, and Italy used Matteo heavily. Feminine forms of apostles' names are ordinary in Italian, which has Paola, Giacoma, Andrea and Mattea, all built the same way. Mattea has been given in Italy quietly for centuries and has appeared in American records more recently, part of the wider fashion for Italian names ending in a vowel.
Meaning
gift of God
Hebrew Mattityahu, from mattan, a gift, joined to Yahu, a short form of the divine name. Greek shortened it to Matthaios, Latin to Matthaeus, and Italian to Matteo, whose feminine is Mattea.
How the name formed
- Mattityahu
- Matthaeus
- Matteo
- Mattea
Related forms: Matteo · Matthew · Matea · Mateia
Pronouncing Mattea
mah-TAY-ah
Three syllables, stress in the middle, the double t held slightly. American English often says muh-TEE-uh instead, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Mattea
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 2006108 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1878reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- −3.7%26 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mattea in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Matteo in Italian — related form
- Matthew in English — related form
- Matea in Spanish — same name
- Mateia in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, New York.
Matteas among us
people named Mattea are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 61,818 born in 2025 was named Mattea
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mattea
- #4987
- Mattea on the 2025 chart
- #924
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mattea went to 26 girls in 2025, but Matea is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 36, which makes it the 924th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,063 places above the chart.
- Mattea26
- Matea10
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,818 for Mattea itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Craig test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mattea's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Craig climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Craig's path sketches the road Mattea is walking now.
Mattea sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mattea is headed
Mattea should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mattea beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mattea in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a complete phrase and one of the warmest in the New Testament.
- Mattie and Tea are ready short forms with very different registers.
- It is unmistakably Italian while being easy for English speakers to say.
- Mattea, Matea and Mathea are all in use, so the spelling will be asked for.
- In Italian, Andrea and Mattea can look alike to English readers unsure which sex a name belongs to.
- Two pronunciations circulate and the spelling settles neither.
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Frequently asked
- How many Matteas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Mattea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mattea?
- Mattea is the most-used spelling in US records — 26 of the 36 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Matea.
- How popular is the name Mattea in 2025?
- Mattea ranks #4987 among US girl names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mattea?
- About 1 in every 61,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Mattea — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mattea with classmates?
- Mattea will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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