"Variant of Matthew"
The name Matei is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Matei is the Romanian form of Matthew. It appears as the name of the evangelist in Romanian translations of the Bible, where the Gospel of Matthew is titled Evanghelia dupa Matei, and it continues the Greek Matthaios and the Hebrew Matityahu. The name entered United States birth records in 1996.
Matthew means "Gift of God.".
The pronunciation of Matei is mah-TAY.
