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Mattheus

#10,314 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Mateus

Mattheus has been given to 221 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #10,314 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Mattheus, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mattheus: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Mateus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mattheus means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mattheus is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mateus and Matthaeus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 221 boys were recorded with the name Mattheus between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,817 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,328 in 2020 to #10,314 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,465 in 2015 to #10,314 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 Mattheus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,314
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mattheus 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mattheus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mattheuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mattheus was born before 2011 — so the typical Mattheus is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
221
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Choose a decade

2000s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Mattheus 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
+1,540
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,986
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,849
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2007 (15)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,817
2007

Spellings of Mattheus

Mattheus is not the most common spelling — Matthew is, with 98.9% against Mattheus'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.

Where Mattheus is used

Across 1910–2025, Mattheus was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 707,300 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 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. Mattheus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mattheus around the world

Where Mattheus 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
    1999–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,910
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    2001–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mattheus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,314
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,986
Best rank ever
#5,817
2007
Peak year
2007
15 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
221
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Mattheus

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

MatteusMatheusMateusMathayusMathiusMatthaisMatthanMattheoMatisseMattisonMatthieuMatyasMathesonMatveyMattiaMatthewsMatildeMatthaeusZaccheusMatrixMataeoMataioOdysseusMattis

Sibling names for Mattheus

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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