Matthieu
The boy's name Matthieu has been in the national records since 1971, with 1,058 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 1,000 Matthieus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Matthieu
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,058
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 2,394th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1971
How old the living Matthieus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,058 babies given the name since 1971, about 1,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 Matthieus
- Matthieu Ricard (born 1946)French writer and Buddhist monk
- Matthieu Delpierre (born 1981)French footballer
- Matthieu Chalmé (born 1980)football player from France
- Matthieu Dossevi (born 1988)French and Togolese association football player
- Matthieu Ladagnous (born 1984)racing cyclist
- Matthieu Epolo (born 2005)Congolese association football player
- Matthieu Chedid (born 1971)French musician
- Matthieu Androdias (born 1990)French rower
People named Matthieu with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matthieu is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matthieu is most concentrated in California (4.7×), Florida (4.0×), New York (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Matthieu peaked:
Matthieu elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Matthieu | 82,415 | 30th |
| Belgium boys | Matthieu | 1,177 | 151st |
| Switzerland boys | Matthieu | 531 | 168th |
| England and Wales boys | Matthieu | 131 | 1,469th |
| France girls | Matthieu | 10 | 3,937th |
| Ireland boys | Matthieu | 6 | 698th |
| Poland boys | Matthieu | 6 birth registrations | 594th |
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.
Matthieu: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matthieu | 72 | 0.006% | 583rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matthieu | 453 | 0.104% | 47th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Matthieu | 6 | 0.009% | 180th |
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, Matthieu is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.12% of children were given it – 44 of them.
Matthieu: rank by region
In 2025, Matthieu was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Matthieu | 589 | 9 |
In 2024, Matthieu was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Matthieu | 8 | 1 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matthieu appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (220th).
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.
Matthieu 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Matthieu | 11 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Related names
Matthieu 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.