Matteus

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Matthæus ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Related Names

See Matthias

Name Days

Faroe Islands

24 February

Faroe Islands

21 September

Sweden

21 September

Matteus used to have a name day in Finland on 21 September from 1488 to 1928 and the day had the pet name Syys-Matti (Autumn-Matti), see also the name day of Matti on 24 February which is called Talvi-Matti (Winter-Matti) ^[3]

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Matteus
Accusative:	Matteus
Dative:	Matteusi
Genitive:	Matteusar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1219 ^[2]
Finland: 1328 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		0	0	436	846
Norway[7]		0	0	55	71
Denmark[8]		0	n.a.	4	n.a
Finland[9]		0	0	n.a	386
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][8][7][9]:

Sources: ^{[6] [8] [7] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
4. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi