Mathis
Mathis was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,355 among boys’ names; 1,975 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Mathis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mathis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mathis mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Mathis is “a male given name revived since the 1990s”
A dialectal variant of Mathias.
/ma.tis/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mathis?
#3,355 among boys’ names, 2025
Mathis fell from #1,785 in 2015 to #3,355 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.3 to 20.5 per million.
141 babies in 2016, the peak
Mathis peaked in 2016, when 141 boys were given it, #1,294 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,355 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,573 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,095 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,738 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,759 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,712 | 26.7 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,280 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,645 | 54.5 |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,310 | 74.6 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,294 | 74.3 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #1,785 | 44.3 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,504 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,510 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,254 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,882 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,156 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,025 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,860 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,222 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,173 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,682 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,360 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,587 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,269 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,471 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,954 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,926 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,698 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,820 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,786 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,787 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,319 | 5.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,090 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,312 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,202 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,018 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,073 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,883 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,436 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,552 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,596 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,045 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,851 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,151 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,978 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,978 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,534 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,934 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,264 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,361 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,718 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,557 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,719 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,242 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,845 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,824 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,428 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,157 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,777 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,233 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,331 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,271 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,541 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,371 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,228 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,340 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,796 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,897 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,351 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,311 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,620 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,712 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,925 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,033 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,938 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,265 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,838 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,685 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,568 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,501 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,861 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,038 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,037 | 6.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,587 | 8.1 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,513 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,015 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,905 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,106 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,294 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,484 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,344 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,988 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,035 | 5.3 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,387 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,743 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,551 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,432 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,136 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,548 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,568 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,112 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,669 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,686 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,131 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,196 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,457 | 14.0 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,184 | 45.3 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,130 | 46.5 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,136 | 44.5 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,034 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mathis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mathis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mathis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mathis, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,975 Americans ever recorded as Mathis. The median Mathis alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,425 people named Mathis (46 women and girls, 1,379 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,479 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 118 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 137 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 846 |
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 Mathis born?
The states with the most babies named Mathis are California, Texas and Georgia, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 136 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 67 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Mathis 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 33,189 babies since 1880, Mathis is the third most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 2,063 babies (1.7%), the fourth 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 Mathis
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 Mathis and names like it
- Compare Mathis and MathiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMathis peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mathis since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Mathis: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Mathis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mathis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.