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Mate - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Mate

[ 1 syll. ma-te, mat-e ] The boy name Mate is pronounced as MEYT KEY. Mate is used predominantly in the Hungarian language and it is derived from Hebrew origins. Mate is a variation of the name Matthew (English).

Mate is not regularly used as a baby name for boys. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. In 2008, within the group of boy names directly linked to Mate, Matthew (English) was the most popular.

Baby names that sound like Mate include Máté (Hungarian), Mat (English), Mathe (German), Matt (English, Estonian, and French), Mead (English), Meade (English), Mehmed (Turkish), Mehmud (Turkish), Maddie (English), Maddy (English), Madu (Igbo), Mahdi (Arabic and Iranian), Mahmood (Turkish), Mahmud (Turkish), Mamduh (Arabic), Mando (Spanish), Mata (Scottish), Matej (Czech and Slavic), Mateu (Catalan), and Matha (Irish).

KEY: English pronunciation for Mate: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)"


 
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