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 [ 2 syll. mat-hew, ma-th-ew ] The boy name Mathew is pronounced MAETHYuw KEY. Mathew's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English. Mathew is a spelling variant of the English Matthew. Mathew is a fairly popular baby name for boys. The name increased in popularity from the 1940s up to the 1980s. At the modest height of its usage in 1984, 0.105% of baby boys were named Mathew. Its ranking then was #139. The baby name has since slipped in popularity. In 2008, it ranked at #374 with a usage of 0.038%. Within the group of boy names directly related to Mathew, the English Matthew was the most commonly used. Its use outnumbered Mathew's by 21 times in 2008. Baby names that sound like Mathew include the French Mathieu, the English Matthew, the English Maddie, the English Maddy, the Igbo Madu, the Arabic and Iranian Mahdi, the Turkish Mahmood, the Turkish Mahmud, the Arabic Mamduh, the Spanish Mando, the Scottish Mata, the Czech and Slavic Matej, the Catalan Mateu, the Irish Matha, the Dutch, French, and Spanish Matheu, the Estonian Mati, the name Mato, the French Matthieu, the Finnish Matti, and the English Mattie. KEY: Pronunciation for Mathew: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; TH as in "theta (TH.EY.T.AH)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)"   |
