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Mathieu

#4,977 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of the Lord, through Matthieu

Mathieu has been given to 2,416 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #4,977 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Mathieu, 2025

1 in 166,000

Mathieu over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mathieu: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of the Lord, through Matthieu

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mathieu means

Mathieu belongs to the name family reached through Mathieu → Matthieu. Its meaning is “gift of the Lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mathieu is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthieu.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Mathieu is pronounced /ma.tjø/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,416 boys were recorded with the name Mathieu between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,467 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,109 in 2020 to #4,977 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,630 in 2015 to #4,977 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 Mathieu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,977
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mathieu 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mathieu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mathieus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mathieu was born before 2000 — so the typical Mathieu is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,416
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (638).

Is Mathieu 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
−696
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,868
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,347
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.0%
Peak was 2000 (77)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,467
1998

Spellings of Mathieu

Mathieu is not the most common spelling — Mathew is, with 75.0% against Mathieu's 2.3%.

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 Mathieu is used

Across 1910–2025, Mathieu was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 112,763 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 in —

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. Mathieu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mathieu around the world

Where Mathieu 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–1998
    #272
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    2006–2011
    #623
    in 2011
  • France
    1900–2025
    #409
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,011
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–1994
    #531
    in 1994

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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mathieu

People whose public names include Mathieu, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mathieu in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mathieu. Linked forms have their own page here.

MateMadisMatasMatejMateoMateuMattiMaciejMateusMathewMatijaMatteoMattiaMattisMatveyMateuszMathiasMathijsMatteusMatthewMattiasMatthiasMatthieuMatthijs

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mathieu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,977
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,868
Best rank ever
#1,467
1998
Peak year
2000
77 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,416
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Mathieu

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

MatthieuMattiasMatheusMateuszMatheoMathisMatthewsMattewMateusMathiasMatisseMattheoMattoxMatthanMateenMattixMathiusMattisMatthiasMatanMattiaMatveyMatixMathayus

Names with a curve like Mathieu

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mathieu, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArikNeftaliTaronRajRomelKamalTarekLeobardoJansenDomonicBradleeFabio

Sibling names for Mathieu

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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