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Matija

Boys' name

Gift of Yahweh

Matija has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2020. 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 2020, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Matija, 2023

1 in 663,000

Matija over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matija: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of Yahweh

Hebrew

What Matija means

Matija means “gift of Yahweh”, associated with Mattiṯyā́hū.

Origin, language, and formation

Matija is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Matija comes through Latin Matthias, Koine Greek Ματθίας and Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthias.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Matija is pronounced /mǎtija/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Matija between 2020 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #10,210 in 2020.

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 Matija?

Matija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matija 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matija was born before 2021 — so the typical Matija is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Matija 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (7)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,210
2020

Spellings of Matija

Matija is not the most common spelling — Matias is, with 83.8% against Matija's 0.06%.

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.

Matija around the world

Where Matija 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.

  • France
    2007–2024
    #5,498
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1964–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Matija by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,210
2020
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Matija

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

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Sibling names for Matija

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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