Matah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Matah

What is the meaning of the name Matah ?

The baby name Matah is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced MAH-tah (/ˈmɑː.tɑː/),muh-TAH (/məˈtɑː/).

Matah is Arabic, Indonesian, Polynesian in Origin.

Matah is a rare, cross‑cultural given name with several plausible roots. In South Asia it aligns with Sanskrit/Hindi mātā, “mother,” an honorific for goddesses, making it a devotional feminine choice. Across Polynesian languages (such as Māori, Tongan, and Samoan), mata means “eye,” “face,” or “point/edge,” and appears widely in personal and place names; the Samoan title-related given name Matai (“chief”) is a related form. In Iberian and Latin American contexts, Mata is a toponymic surname from Spanish mata, “bush/thicket,” sometimes repurposed as a given name. The final h in Matah functions as a modern or diasporic spelling variant to signal vowel length or uniqueness.

Historically, usage concentrates in South Asia (as a reverential feminine name) and the Pacific (as a unisex element or standalone). Variants and related forms include Mata, Maata, Mataa, Matai, and, less directly, Matta. Overall meanings range from “mother” to “eye/face” to “thicket,” depending on origin.

⚙ Matah is rarely chosen. We have only 41 recorded uses of it on record, from 16 countries.