Matheus
Matheus was given to 65 boys in 2025, #2,201 among boys’ names; 1,688 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Matheus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matheus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Matheus?
#2,201 among boys’ names, 2025
Matheus rose from #3,199 in 2015 to #2,201 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 38.1 per million.
104 babies in 2007, the peak
Matheus peaked in 2007, when 104 boys were given it, #1,522 among boys’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,201 | 38.1 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,411 | 33.7 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,354 | 34.5 |
| 2022 | 81 | #1,930 | 46.4 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,609 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,643 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,102 | 38.5 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,968 | 41.3 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,700 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,648 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,199 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,503 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,611 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,577 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,535 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 72 | #1,947 | 37.5 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,133 | 32.3 |
| 2008 | 81 | #1,819 | 39.7 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,522 | 50.1 |
| 2006 | 95 | #1,557 | 46.2 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,415 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,738 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,066 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,354 | 22.7 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,205 | 24.2 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,073 | 24.9 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,700 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,322 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,042 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,311 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,388 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,318 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,308 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,329 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,894 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,018 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,078 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matheus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matheus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Matheus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matheus, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,688 Americans ever recorded as Matheus. The median Matheus alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,421 people named Matheus (2 women and girls, 2,419 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 70 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 872 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 725 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Matheus born?
The states with the most babies named Matheus are Florida, Massachusetts and California, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,173 | 2.6× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #496 | 13.0× |
| California | 10 | #1,654 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #1,946 | 0.3× |
Where Matheus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Matheus is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1988 it was given 13.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Matheus with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 19,939 babies since 1880, Matheus is the third most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 1,222 babies (5.3%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Matheus
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Matheus and names like it
- Compare Matheus and MathiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMatheus peaked in 2007.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matheus since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Matheus.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Matheus alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.