Mathias

Mathias is the 4,060th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,481 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 35,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,481
Rank: 4,060th
How common: 1 in 35,200
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.5%
Black, not Hispanic 5.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Mathias

Bob Mathias (1930–2006)American athlete and congressman
Emmanuel Mathias (born 1986)Togolese footballer
Georges Mathias (1826–1910)French composer, pianist and teacher

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

Surnames like Mathias

Also a first name

Mathias has been given to 15,544 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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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.