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Matt - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Matt

[ 1 syll. mat(t), ma-tt ] The boy name Matt is pronounced as MAET KEY. Matt is mainly used in English, Estonian, and French, and its language of origin is Hebrew. Matt is a short form of the English name Matthew.

Matt is unusual as a baby name for boys. Its usage peaked modestly in 1959 with 0.045% of baby boys being named Matt. It ranked at #256 then. The baby name has since experienced a substantial decline in frequency, and is today used on a very light scale. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly related to Matt, the English Matthew was the most widely used.

Baby names that sound like Matt include the English Mat, the Hungarian Mate, the German Mathe, the Hungarian Máté, the English Mead, the English Meade, the Turkish Mehmed, the Turkish Mehmud, 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, and the Irish Matha.

Details of famous persons named Matt:
Actor Matt Damon, born 8 October 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Actor Matt Dillon, born 18 February 1964, New Rochelle, New York.
Actor Matt Long, born 18 May 1980, Winchester, Kentucky.
Cartoonist Matt Groening, born 15 February 1954, Portland, Oregon.
Columnist Matt Drudge.

KEY: Pronunciation for Matt: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)"


 
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