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Matthieu

#7,497 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of the Lord

Matthieu has been given to 1,058 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,497 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Matthieu, 2025

1 in 301,000

Matthieu over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matthieu: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of the Lord

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matthieu means

Matthieu means “gift of the Lord”, associated with mattiṯyāhū.

Origin, language, and formation

Matthieu is used in French.

Matthieu comes through Old French Mathieu, Latin Matthaeus, Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος and Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Matthieu is pronounced /ma.tjø/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,058 boys were recorded with the name Matthieu between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,428 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,383 in 2020 to #7,497 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,949 in 2015 to #7,497 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 Matthieu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,497
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matthieu 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matthieu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matthieus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matthieu was born before 2003 — so the typical Matthieu is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,058
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (266).

Is Matthieu 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
−808
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,114
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,548
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.6%
Peak was 1998 (36)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,428
1998

Spellings of Matthieu

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

Where Matthieu is used

Across 1910–2025, Matthieu was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 327,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Matthieu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Matthieu around the world

Where Matthieu 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
    1996–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2008–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    1910–2025
    #431
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Matthieu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,497
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,114
Best rank ever
#2,428
1998
Peak year
1998
36 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,058
Count in 2025
11

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

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Sibling names for Matthieu

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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