boy's name

Matvey

  • Gender Boy
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 501

Ireland

#801

2025 births

Matvey is a boy's name. In 2025 it was given to 15 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2013, when 26 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 221,043 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2003.

Matvey over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

183
'00 '10 '20
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Births named Matvey by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 43
2010s 183
2020s (to 2025) 93

How popular is Matvey?

In 2025, Matvey was given to 15 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Matvey is used

Ireland #801 4 in 2025
Canada #2,501 8 in 2024
England & Wales #3,607 6 in 2025
United States #6,087 15 in 2025
France #6,898 5 in 2022

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Matvey

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Matvey also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Matvey over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Matvey in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Finnish
Matti
Georgian
Mate
Icelandic
Mattias
Serbo-Croatian
Mate
Ukrainian
Matvii
Upper Sorbian
Matej
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Mathew Mattis Mateus Matteus Matvei

Sibling names for Matvey

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Matvey — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Matvey

How popular is the name Matvey?

In 2025, Matvey was given to 15 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Matvey a girl's or a boy's name?

Matvey is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

When was Matvey most popular?

Matvey peaked in 2013, when 26 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Matvey a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Matvey currently ranks #801 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.