Mathew

Where Mathew comes from

The dictionaries list Mathew as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, of occasional usage, variant of Matthew — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #200 among boys — 60 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1984
    Peak, #139
    1,968 babies named Mathew — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1991
    Mathew Leckie born
    Australian association football player
  4. 1992
    Mathew Ryan born
    Australian association football player
  5. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #346.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, of occasional usage, variant of Matthew.
Namesakes
  • Mathew Ryan · Australian association football player, born 1992
  • Mathew Leckie · Australian association football player, born 1991
  • Mathew Benjamin Brady · American photographer, 1822–1896
  • Mathew Hayman · Australian road bicycle racer, born 1978
  • Mathew Belcher · Australian sailor, born 1982

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.