Mataniah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mataniah

What is the meaning of the name Mataniah ?

The baby name Mataniah is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced mah-tah-NEE-uh (IPA: /mɑtəˈniːə/).

Mataniah is Hebrew in Origin.

Mataniah is the Anglicized form of the Biblical Hebrew name Mattanyah (מַתַּנְיָה), built from mattan “gift” + the divine element Yah, yielding “gift of Yahweh/God.” The name appears repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible: it is the birth name of King Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:17) and borne by several Levites and temple singers in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, linking it with priestly service and liturgical music.

Transliterations and variants include Mataniah, Mattaniah, and Mattanyah; modern Israeli forms are Matanya and Matanyahu, with the shorter Matan widely used from the same root. Cognate names include Mattityahu (source of Matthew), expressing the same “gift of God” sense. While rare in English-speaking countries, Mataniah sees periodic revival in Jewish and Hebrew-speaking communities, aligning with the 20th-century return to biblical names and heritage.

⚙ Mataniah is extremely rare. Our whole dataset turns up only 2 recorded uses, across 2 countries.