Matheus
About 1,688 American babies have been named Matheus since 1988, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 2,183rd. About 1,700 Matheuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Matheus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,688
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,516th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,183rd
- First recorded
- 1988
How old the living Matheuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,688 babies given the name since 1988, about 1,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Matheuss
- Matheus Cunha (born 1999)Brazilian association football player do brazilian player
- Matheus Nunes (born 1998)Portuguese footballer
- Matheus Leite Nascimento (born 1983)Brazilian footballer
- Matheus Fernandes (born 1998)Brazilian association football player
- Matheus Pereira (born 1996)Brazilian association football player
- Matheus Humberto Maximiano (born 1989)Brazilian association football player
- Matheus Jesus (born 1997)Brazilian association football player
- Matheus Ferraz (born 1996)Brazilian association football player
People named Matheus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matheus is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matheus is most concentrated in Massachusetts (16.8×), Florida (6.5×), New Jersey (4.3×), Connecticut (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Matheus peaked:
Matheus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Matheus | 296 | 252nd |
| France boys | Matheus | 245 | 1,501st |
| England and Wales boys | Matheus | 213 | 1,425th |
| Switzerland boys | Matheus | 148 | 448th |
| Ireland boys | Matheus | 30 | 529th |
| Belgium boys | Matheus | 28 | 1,213th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Matheus | 3 | 414th |
| Poland boys | Matheus | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Matheus: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matheus | 93 | 0.007% | 458th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matheus | 51 | 0.012% | 287th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Matheus | 2 | 0.003% | 193rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Matheus | 2 | 0.054% | 11th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Matheus is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Matheus: rank by region
In 2024, Matheus was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Matheus | 882 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Matheus among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Matheus | 3,778 | 13,037 |
| the Netherlands girls | Matheus | — | 603 |
| Finland boys | Matheus | 13 | 29 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Matheus lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 648 men called Matheus were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Matheus | 25 | 0.055 | 858 |
| Tarragona | Matheus | 23 | 0.052 | 1,186 |
| Coruña, A | Matheus | 28 | 0.051 | 945 |
| Barcelona | Matheus | 129 | 0.044 | 1,240 |
| Burgos | Matheus | 8 | 0.044 | 1,127 |
| Balears, Illes | Matheus | 24 | 0.039 | 1,494 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Matheus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.