How would you pronounce Mateo?

[Pregnantagain7]

Just that really, how would you pronounce it and what do you think as a name? Would be a brother for Luca if we decide to go with it.

Mat-ay-oh, didn't know it was Italian, I know two, one adult, one child both are Kenyan.

Mat-tay-oh
I know two little boys called Matteo both spell it double t. Lovely name. Goes well with Luca.

tess thank you I've been looking at it and thinking it wasn't right!! Matteo it is then! Silly me! :)

I have one, Matteo (I think is Italian spelling)

Ma - Tay - o

Mateo is (I think) the Spanish spelling.

What a lovely name! I pronounce it Ma-tay-o

Matt-ee-oh

Ma-Tay-oh
I like it

Matt-ey-oh (again, like in Benidorm).

Mat-ay-oh

matt-ay-oh

Ma-tay-oh

Please ignore my imagined pronounciation pregnant, my friend's husband is Romanian and her son's name is Matei, so very different to Mateo, but you can see why my first thought is to just sub the 'eye' for 'oh'

Op if you are having trouble pronouncing it then so are the many tens of thousands of people that your son will encounter in his lifetime. Do you really want to handicap your child with such an unpronouncable name?

We're having a ma-tay-oh too! With one T as he's part Spanish, not Italian. I absolutely love it : )

Mat ay oh. I know one called teo (Tay oh) for short, I always thought that it was nice.

Mat-tay-oh

Wouldn't occur to me to say it any other way. Great with Luca.

I don't think it's an unpronounceable name to be lumbered with at all.

combust I have no problems pronouncing it thank you and as the vast majority of people on this thread have shown it's certainly not unpronounceable. I just wanted to see if he would encounter any different pronunciations if we decide on this name.
Thanks for your opinion.

Matteo if Italian. Mateo if Spanish.

Oh and it's Matt-ay-oh. I'm surprised anyone would mispronounce as it's a fairly well known name.

I'd put the second T in and everything will be fine. Easily acknowledged as what it is.

With one T I had to do a little mate eee oh. Then realised it was obvious.
I know a Luca. His brother is Alessio. Also obvious but different

Mat-ay-o here too. Tayo is a nice nickname that I've heard used here (Australia) - obvs not spelt like that!
Lovely name. :)