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Mathea

Girls' name

Feminine form of Mathias

Mathea has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Mathea, 2018

1 in 703,000

Mathea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mathea: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Mathias

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mathea means

Mathea is a feminine form of Mathias.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mathea is used in Norwegian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mathea → Mathias → Matthias → Matthias. The family’s meaning is “gift of God”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Mattiṯyā́hū.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mathias and Matteus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 151 girls were recorded with the name Mathea between 1995 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2004; its best national rank was #8,086 in 2004.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mathea?

Mathea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mathea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mathea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matheas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mathea was born before 2005 — so the typical Mathea is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 58.9% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Mathea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (14)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,086
2004

Spellings of Mathea

Mathea is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 81.8% against Mathea's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mathea is used

Across 1910–2025, Mathea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mathea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mathea around the world

Where Mathea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2024
    #4,801
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #69
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mathea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,086
2004
Peak year
2004
14 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
151
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mathea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mathea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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