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Matthaeus

Boys' name

Gift of YHWH (the Lord)

Matthaeus has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2016, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Matthaeus, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matthaeus: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of YHWH (the Lord)

Hebrew

What Matthaeus means

Matthaeus means “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”, associated with Mattiṯyāhū.

Origin, language, and formation

Matthaeus is used in Latin. Its origins include Hebrew.

Matthaeus comes through Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος and Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Matthaeus is pronounced [matˈtʰae̯.ʊs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Matthaeus between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #13,502 in 2016.

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 Matthaeus?

Matthaeus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matthaeus 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matthaeus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matthaeuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matthaeus was born before 2016 — so the typical Matthaeus is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Matthaeus 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
0%
Peak was 2016 (5)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,502
2016

Spellings of Matthaeus

Matthaeus is not the most common spelling — Matheus is, with 38.8% against Matthaeus's 0.11%.

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.

Matthaeus around the world

Where Matthaeus 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
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Matthaeus 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
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Best rank ever
#13,502
2016
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Matthaeus

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

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Sibling names for Matthaeus

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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