Mathew

At the 2020 census, 17,393 Americans bore the surname Mathew — 2,030th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,200.

By the numbers

People: 17,393
Rank: 2,030th
How common: 1 in 17,200
Per 100,000: 5.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mathew described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 85.2%
White, not Hispanic 8.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mathew

Simon Mathew (born 1983)Danish singer

People named Mathew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mathew

Also a first name

Mathew has been given to 77,745 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.