Entry № 6605 · Hebrew origin

Mateja Mateja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-teh-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Gift of God (Slovenian-Croatian Matthew feminine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Slovenian)

A name that means "gift of god (slovenian-croatian matthew feminine)".

Mateja is from the Slovenian / Croatian Mateja — South Slavic feminine of Matthew. Mateja is one of the Slovenian + Croatian feminine names — central to traditional South Slavic Catholic heritage.

Gift of God (Slovenian-Croatian-Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

Mateja
Transliteration
Mateja
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.tɛ.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mateja stands.

Mateja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Matejas before her.

Real people
Mateja Kežman
Serbian footballer + Chelsea + PSG + Atlético Madrid.
born 1979
In fiction
Mateja
South Slavic Matthew feminine.

Names connected to Mateja.

The number behind Mateja.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mateja reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.