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Matthaios

Ματθαίος

Matthaios, Matthew, in English

Key facts

Matthaios at a glance

Name day
16 November
This year · 2026
Monday, 16 November
Next year · 2027
Tuesday, 16 November

Make it yours

Learn Matthaios

Say it

Ματθαίος

The accent shows the stress — your voice lifts on the highlighted letter.

In English letters: Matthaios · Matthew

Write it

Ματθαίος

Copy it and paste it anywhere you can’t type Greek — a text, a card, a cake.

Tell the kids

Pass it on. Tell them whose name they carry — and that this day is theirs to keep.

Χρόνια Πολλά

Send Matthaios a Χρόνια Πολλά

Χρόνια Πολλά Ματθαίος 16 Νοεμβρίου onomasti

A name day matters more than a birthday in a Greek family — and everyone sends Χρόνια Πολλά. Here is a card to send, and the correct Greek to write, whether or not you can type it yourself.

Warm — someone close

Χρόνια πολλά!The everyday wish — “many years”.
Να τα εκατοστίσεις!“May you live to a hundred” — the traditional wish, to someone close.

Formal — an elder, or with respect

Χρόνια πολλά και ευτυχισμένα!A fuller, warmer wish — “many years, and happy ones”.
Να τα εκατοστίσετε!“May you live to a hundred” — with respect, or to more than one person.

The card and the wishes are in Greek — the way you would actually send them. We never machine-translate; these are fixed, correct greetings, and the name is woven in only where Greek grammar lets us do it without guessing.

Variations

Forms & nicknames of the name

One name takes many forms — the formal, the everyday, the affectionate, and the spellings that travelled abroad. Each has its own page here, and all share the same day.

English & romanised

you are hereMatthaios Matthew

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Iconography

Matthaios in sacred art

DepictingHoly Apostle and Evangelist Matthew

Images from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, credited to their source. We show a depiction only where the saint on this name’s day could be identified against our own recorded feast date — never a picture found by searching for the name.