Mathis

51,361 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mathis in the 2020 census, making it the 645th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,820.

By the numbers

People: 51,361
Rank: 645th
How common: 1 in 5,820
Per 100,000: 17.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.6%
Black, not Hispanic 31.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mathis

Samantha Mathis (born 1970)American actress and trade union leader
Johnny Mathis (born 1935)American singer
Clint Mathis (born 1976)American soccer player
Rémi Mathis (born 1982)French historian and librarian
Edith Mathis (1938–2025)Swiss opera singer
June Mathis (1887–1927)American screenwriter, producer and film studio executive
Roger Mathis (1921–2015)Swiss footballer
Lionel Mathis (born 1981)footballer

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

Surnames like Mathis

Also a first name

Mathis has been given to 1,975 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 2016. 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.