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Matthias

#372 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of God, through Matthias

Matthias has been given to 13,676 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #372 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 854 recorded.

Babies named Matthias, 2025

1 in 3,880

Matthias over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matthias: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of God, through Matthias

Hebrew

What Matthias means

Matthias belongs to the name family reached through Matthias → Matthias. Its meaning is “gift of God”.

Origin, language, and formation

Matthias is used in English, Danish, French, German and Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Matthias comes through Latin Matthias.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matias and Matthias.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Matthias is pronounced /məˈθaɪəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,676 boys were recorded with the name Matthias between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 854 in 2025; its best national rank was #372 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #426 in 2020 to #372 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #556 in 2015 to #372 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 Matthias?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,880
854 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,000
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#372
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,692 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matthias 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 1003%
School of 50012%

Put another way: gather 2,692 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matthias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matthiass were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (5,144).

Is Matthias 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
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+184
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (854)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#372
2025

Spellings of Matthias

Matthias is not the most common spelling — Matias is, with 41.0% against Matthias's 22.1%.

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 Matthias is used

Across 2016–2025, Matthias was most concentrated in Alaska — about 1 in 633 boys, against 1 in 2,278 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 20,000).

5158 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alaska1 in 633
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 690
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 847
  4. 4Kansas1 in 1,408
  5. 5Arizona1 in 1,471
  6. 6Colorado1 in 1,538
  7. 7Oregon1 in 1,563
  8. 8Washington1 in 1,695

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.

Geographically, Matthias is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 68% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Matthias around the world

Where Matthias 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
    1996–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #400
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #352
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #468
    in 2025
  • France
    1908–2025
    #637
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #491
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Matthias

People whose public names include Matthias, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Matthias in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Matthias. Linked forms have their own page here.

MateMattMadisMatasMatejMateoMateuMattiMaciejMatejaMateusMathewMathisMatijaMatteoMattiaMattisMatveyMateuszMathiasMathieuMathijsMatteusMatthew

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Matthias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#372
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 54
Best rank ever
#372
2025
Peak year
2025
854 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,676
Count in 2025
854

Names similar to Matthias

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

MathiasMatiasMattiasMatthewsJeremiasMatteoMathieuMatthieuMatheusIsaiasMatheoMateuszNehemiasMathewMathisTobiasMattZacariasZachariasMathayusMattewJosiasMateusMattheus

Names with a curve like Matthias

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Matthias, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KianZayneEdenSullivanYusufBensonRhysSorenRaidenSantinoCassiusOdin

Sibling names for Matthias

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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