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Matius

#13,233 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Matthaeus

Matius has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2022. In 2025 it ranked #13,233 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Matius, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matius: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Matthaeus

Latin

What Matius means

Matius belongs to the name family reached through Matius → Matthaeus. Its meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Matius is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Latin.

Matius comes through Latin Matthaeus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthew and Matthaeus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Matius is pronounced /maˈtius/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Matius between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #13,233 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 Matius?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,233
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matius 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matiuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matius was born before 2022 — so the typical Matius is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Matius 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
100.0%
Peak was 2022 (5)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,233
2025

Spellings of Matius

Matius is not the most common spelling — Marcus is, with 58.5% against Matius's <0.01%.

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.

Matius around the world

Where Matius 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.

  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #433
    in 1958

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Matius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,233
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#13,233
2025
Peak year
2022
5 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Matius

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

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Sibling names for Matius

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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