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Mattias

#1,233 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of God, through Matthias

Mattias has been given to 2,681 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,233 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Mattias, 2025

1 in 20,300

Mattias over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mattias: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of God, through Matthias

Hebrew

What Mattias means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mattias is used in Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Mattias comes through Latin Matthias, Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος and Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matias and Matthias.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Mattias is pronounced /ˈmɑtːiɑs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,681 boys were recorded with the name Mattias between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,115 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,293 in 2020 to #1,233 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,563 in 2015 to #1,233 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 Mattias?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,300
163 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,233
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mattias 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,099 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mattias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mattiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mattias was born before 2017 — so the typical Mattias is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,681
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (1,003).

Is Mattias 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
−89
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+60
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+330
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.1%
Peak was 2024 (185)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,115
2021

Spellings of Mattias

Mattias is not the most common spelling — Matias is, with 41.9% against Mattias's 4.4%.

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 Mattias is used

Across 2016–2025, Mattias was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 11,480 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,143
  3. 3Washington1 in 7,143
  4. 4Texas1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 9,091
  6. 6New York1 in 10,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 12,500
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 14,286

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.

Mattias around the world

Where Mattias 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
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #2,438
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #391
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Mattias

People whose public names include Mattias, 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.

Mattias in other languages

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

MateMadisMatejMateoMateuMattiMaciejMateusMathewMathisMatijaMatteoMattiaMattisMatveyMateuszMathiasMathieuMathijsMatteusMatthewMatthiasMatthieuMatthijs

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

Mattias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,233
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 60
Best rank ever
#1,115
2021
Peak year
2024
185 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,681
Count in 2025
163

Names similar to Mattias

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

MathiasMatthiasMatiasMathieuMatheusMatheoMateuszMathisMatthewsMattewMatthieuMateusMatisseMattheoMattoxMatthanErmiasMateenJosiasAnaniasNehemiasMattixMathiusMattis

Names with a curve like Mattias

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

DenimGadielBryerZakariyaZavianZeusEitanTaylenSyncereIsaIlyasZephyr

Sibling names for Mattias

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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