Meaning & History
Means "gift of Yahweh" in Hebrew. This was the original name of Zedekiah, a king of Judah, in the Old Testament.
Related Names
Other Languages & CulturesMatevos(Armenian) Matthaios, Matthias(Biblical Greek) Mattanyahu, Mattithyahu, Mattityahu(Biblical Hebrew) Mattheus, Matthias(Biblical Latin) Mazhe(Breton) Matey(Bulgarian) Mateu(Catalan) Matej, Mateo(Croatian) Matouš(Czech) Matthew(English) Mati(Estonian) Matti(Finnish) Mahé, Matéo, Mathéo, Mathieu, Mattéo, Matthieu(French) Mate(Georgian) Matthäus(German) Matthaios, Mattheos(Greek) Makaio(Hawaiian) Mattityahu(Hebrew) Máté(Hungarian) Maitiú(Irish) Matteo(Italian) Matīss(Latvian) Matas, Motiejus(Lithuanian) Matej(Macedonian) Matheo, Matteus(Norwegian) Mateusz(Polish) Mateus(Portuguese) Matei(Romanian) Matvei, Matvey, Matfey(Russian) Matúš(Slovak) Matej, Matevž(Slovene) Mateo(Spanish) Matheo, Matteus(Swedish) Matviy(Ukrainian)