Matteo

Where Matteo comes from

Matteo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #1,740 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Matteo Salvini born
    Italian politician
  3. 1975
    Matteo Renzi born
    Italian politician
  4. 2024
    Peak, #138
    2,589 babies named Matteo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Matteo Renzi · Italian politician, born 1975
  • Matteo Salvini · Italian politician, born 1973
  • Matteo Ricci · Italian Catholic missionary, 1552–1610
  • Matteo Darmian · Italian footballer, born 1989
  • Matteo Zuppi · Italian archbishop, born 1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.