Matthias
About 13,676 American babies have been named Matthias since 1880, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 372nd. About 13,000 Matthiases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Matthias
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,676
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 372nd
- Rank in 2025
- 372nd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Matthiases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,676 babies given the name since 1880, about 13,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 9,800 of them are children and 110 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Matthiass
- Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490)King of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria
- Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557–1619)Holy Roman Emperor
- Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804–1881)German botanist and philosopher
- Matthias Ginter (born 1994)German association football player
- Matthias Sammer (born 1967)German association football player, coach and executive
- Matthias Grünewald (1480–1528)German Renaissance painter (c.1480–1528)
- Matthias Claudius (1740–1815)German poet
- Matthias Sindelar (1903–1939)Austrian association football player
People named Matthias with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matthias is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matthias is most concentrated in Alaska (3.4×), New Mexico (3.1×), Arizona (2.4×), Nevada (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Matthias peaked:
Matthias elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Matthias | 19,532 | 18th |
| France boys | Matthias | 15,780 | 108th |
| Belgium boys | Matthias | 3,889 | 26th |
| Italy boys | Matthias | 2,966 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Matthias | 1,308 | 58th |
| England and Wales boys | Matthias | 1,214 | 366th |
| Norway boys | Matthias | 277 | 353rd |
| Poland boys | Matthias | 85 birth registrations | 334th |
| Ireland boys | Matthias | 70 | 471st |
| Scotland boys | Matthias | 15 | 400th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Matthias | 4 | 352nd |
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.
Matthias: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matthias | 1,063 | 0.085% | 45th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matthias | 203 | 0.047% | 143rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Matthias | 42 | 0.064% | 63rd |
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, Matthias is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.13% of children were given it – 34 of them.
Matthias: rank by region
In 2025, Matthias was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Matthias | 376 | 15 |
| Wallonia | Matthias | 267 | 10 |
In 2023, Matthias was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Matthias | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matthias appears in the lists for Province of Liège (183rd) and Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Matthias by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 46 | 285th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Matthias 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 | Matthias | 2,953 | 7,096 |
| Finland boys | Matthias | 87 | 247 |
| the Netherlands girls | Matthias | — | 76 |
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 Matthias lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 371 men called Matthias 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Matthias | 51 | 0.082 | 823 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Matthias | 28 | 0.053 | 1,521 |
| Palmas, Las | Matthias | 23 | 0.040 | 1,908 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Matthias | 33 | 0.033 | 1,834 |
| Barcelona | Matthias | 70 | 0.024 | 2,021 |
| Málaga | Matthias | 17 | 0.019 | 2,284 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 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
Matthias 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.