About the name Mateus
Mateus belongs to the Portuguese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Mateus first appears in Social Security records in 1994. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2465 in 2007, and in 2024 41 babies received the name — 948 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.