Matthews

126,328 people in the United States were counted with the surname Matthews in the 2020 census, making it the 234th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,366.

By the numbers

People: 126,328
Rank: 234th
How common: 1 in 2,366
Per 100,000: 42.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.7%
Black, not Hispanic 30.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Matthews

Stanley Matthews (1915–2000)English association football player
Dave Matthews (born 1967)American singer-songwriter
Michael Matthews (born 1990)Australian racing cyclist
Vincent Matthews (born 1947)American sprinter
Auston Matthews (born 1997)American ice hockey player
Ken Matthews (1934–2019)British athlete
Al Matthews (1942–2018)American actor and singer
Adam Matthews (born 1992)Welsh footballer

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

Surnames like Matthews

Also a first name

Matthews has been given to 1,605 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1988. 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.