Mattanyah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mattanyah

What is the meaning of the name Mattanyah ?

The baby name Mattanyah is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced mat-TAN-yah (IPA: /mætˈtænjə/).

Mattanyah is Hebrew in Origin.

Mattanyah is a Hebrew theophoric given name meaning “gift of Yah(weh),” built from matan (“gift”) + the divine element -yah/-yahu. In biblical Hebrew it appears with several spellings, and English Bibles often render it as Mattaniah or Mataniah; longer forms include Mattanyahu/Matanyahu, while the clipped modern Hebrew Matanya and Matan share the same root. It is closely related to Matityahu, the source of Matthew and Matthias.

In the Tanakh the name is borne by multiple figures, notably Levites and temple musicians (1 Chronicles; 2 Chronicles), and it was the birth name of Judah’s last king before he was renamed Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:17). After lying mostly dormant in the diaspora, the name re-emerged in modern Israel, where traditional theophoric names gained favor. In English-speaking contexts Mattanyah remains rare, with variant spellings preferred to ease pronunciation.

⚙ We have no record of Mattanyah in any national birth registry or name dataset. Most often that means a rare name, a regional or heritage one, or a recent coinage. Either way, it's a name very few children share.