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Matheus

#2,201 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Mateus

Matheus has been given to 1,688 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #2,201 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Matheus, 2025

1 in 51,000

Matheus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matheus: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mateus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matheus means

Matheus is a variant of Mateus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Matheus → Mateus → Matthaeus. The family’s meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Mattiṯyāhū.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mateus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,688 boys were recorded with the name Matheus between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,522 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,643 in 2020 to #2,201 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,199 in 2015 to #2,201 in 2025.

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 Matheus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,201
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matheus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matheus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matheuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matheus was born before 2010 — so the typical Matheus is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,688
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (660).

Is Matheus 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
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+442
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+998
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2007 (104)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,522
2007

Spellings of Matheus

Matheus is not the most common spelling — Mathew is, with 71.2% against Matheus's 1.6%.

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 Matheus is used

Across 2016–2025, Matheus was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,030 boys, against 1 in 18,859 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,030
  2. 2Florida1 in 10,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Matheus around the world

Where Matheus 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
    2002–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #414
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #1,876
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #241
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Matheus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,201
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 442
Best rank ever
#1,522
2007
Peak year
2007
104 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,688
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Matheus

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

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Sibling names for Matheus

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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