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Mathis

#3,355 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Matthias

Mathis has been given to 1,975 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #3,355 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 141 recorded.

Babies named Mathis, 2025

1 in 94,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mathis: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Matthias

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mathis means

Mathis is a variant of Matthias.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mathis is used in French and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthias, Mathias and Mattis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Mathis is pronounced /ma.tis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,975 boys were recorded with the name Mathis between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 141 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,034 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,712 in 2020 to #3,355 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,785 in 2015 to #3,355 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 Mathis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,355
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mathis 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mathis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mathiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mathis was born before 2009 — so the typical Mathis is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,698
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (758).

Is Mathis 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
+218
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−643
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,570
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.8%
Peak was 2016 (141)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,034
1885

Spellings of Mathis

Mathis is not the most common spelling — Mathew is, with 50.3% against Mathis's 1.3%.

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 Mathis is used

Across 2016–2025, Mathis was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 33,343 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 20,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 50,000

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.

Mathis around the world

Where Mathis 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1901–2025
    #46
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #451
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #347
    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.

Mathis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,355
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 643
Best rank ever
#1,034
1885
Peak year
2016
141 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,975
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Mathis

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

MatheoMattewMateusMatheusMathieuMattiasMattoxMateenMateuszMattixMattisMatanMatthewsMattiaMatveyMatixMatthieuMataiMattieMatyasMatisseMattheoMatiasMatin

Sibling names for Mathis

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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