Matey Surname
Approximately 13,643 people bear this surname
Matey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 5,334 | 1:5,066 | 717 |
| Nicaragua | 3,489 | 1:1,726 | 305 |
| India | 801 | 1:957,635 | 40,917 |
| United States | 780 | 1:464,691 | 39,603 |
| Venezuela | 583 | 1:51,808 | 2,542 |
| Russia | 563 | 1:255,991 | 27,002 |
| Spain | 482 | 1:96,996 | 8,015 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Tanzania | 243 | 1:217,867 | 18,185 |
| DR Congo | 198 | 1:373,129 | 32,235 |
| Mexico | 180 | 1:689,590 | 10,740 |
| Indonesia | 110 | 1:1,202,265 | 84,863 |
| Moldova | 84 | 1:42,397 | 6,377 |
| Peru | 69 | 1:460,639 | 13,676 |
| Argentina | 45 | 1:949,854 | 60,205 |
| Costa Rica | 38 | 1:125,791 | 1,936 |
| Belarus | 26 | 1:365,425 | 38,396 |
| Poland | 18 | 1:2,111,597 | 101,748 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Kazakhstan | 14 | 1:1,263,035 | 68,752 |
| Kenya | 13 | 1:3,552,300 | 39,474 |
| Honduras | 12 | 1:734,704 | 4,016 |
| Transnistria | 11 | 1:43,154 | 6,501 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 1:1,163,151 | 37,744 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Abkhazia | 1 | 1:242,865 | 5,354 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
Matey (1,738) may also be a first name.
Matey Demographics
Average Male Matey Height
176.46 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Matey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Matey (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺎﺗﻲ, Hindi: मातेश्वरी, Marathi: माटे, Russian: Матей, Tibetan: མ་ཀྲེ།) occurs more in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Matey? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 38,549th most commonly used surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 534,160 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 46 percent of Matey reside; 42 percent reside in West Africa and 42 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 183,964th most common first name on earth. It is borne by 1,738 people.
The surname Matey is most widely held in Ghana, where it is borne by 5,334 people, or 1 in 5,066. Outside of Ghana this last name exists in 71 countries. It is also found in Nicaragua, where 26 percent live and India, where 6 percent live.
Matey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Matey has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Matey surname grew 6,500 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 900 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Matey Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Matey surname is predominantly Catholic (100%) in Ireland, Orthodox (100%) in Russia and Orthodox (84%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Matey last name are 10.82% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 57.59% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Matey earn in different countries varies markedly. In Peru they earn 1.4% more than the national average, earning S/. 19,656 per year; in United States they earn 7.89% more than the national average, earning $46,553 USD per year and in Canada they earn 32.75% less than the national average, earning $33,414 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Matey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Matey in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺎﺗﻲ | maty | - |
| Matey in the Hindi language | ||
| मातेश्वरी | matesvari | 50 |
| मती | mati | 50 |
| Matey in the Marathi language | ||
| माटे | mate | 50 |
| मते | mate | 37.5 |
| मतेाने | mateane | 4.17 |
| मता | mata | 4.17 |
| मेटे | mete | 4.17 |
| Matey in the Tibetan language | ||
| མ་ཀྲེ། | matré | 33.33 |
| དམར་ཀྲེ། | martré | 33.33 |
| མཱ་ཏེ་ | maté | 8.33 |
| མ་ཏེ་ | maté | 8.33 |
| མ་ཀྲེ་ | matré | 8.33 |
| མཱ་ཐེགས་ | matek | 8.33 |
| Matey in the Russian language | ||
| Матей | matej | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Matey
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