Matias
Matias was given to 2,140 boys in 2025, #170 among boys’ names; 25,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,500 Americans named Matias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matias mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Matias is “a male given name, equivalent to English Matthias”
Borrowed from Latin Matthiās, from Ancient Greek Ματθίας (Matthías), earlier Ματταθίας (Mattathías), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Matityáhu).
/maˈt͡ʃi.ɐs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matias?
#170 among boys’ names, 2025
Matias rose from #459 in 2015 to #170 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.35 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,270 babies in 2024, the peak
Matias peaked in 2024, when 2,270 babies were given it (2,265 boys, #159 among boys’ names). The 2,140 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,140 | #170 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,265 | #159 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,199 | #164 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 1,945 | #196 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,721 | #225 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,754 | #216 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,645 | #229 | 0.92 |
| 2018 | 2,015 | #202 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1,565 | #236 | 0.85 |
| 2016 | 917 | #363 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 664 | #459 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 559 | #504 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 465 | #567 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 457 | #565 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 442 | #567 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 329 | #711 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 332 | #716 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 267 | #823 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 270 | #799 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 246 | #829 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 212 | #869 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 195 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,116 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 153 | #1,013 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,064 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,355 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 77 | #1,481 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,197 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,278 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,258 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,693 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,390 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,649 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 56 | #1,548 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 48 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,895 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,921 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 39 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,820 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 37 | #1,621 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,090 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,695 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,041 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,149 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,967 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,663 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,938 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,861 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,713 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,775 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,725 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,982 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,955 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,829 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,934 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,883 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 23 | #1,563 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #1,568 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,590 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,580 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,862 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,562 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,676 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,617 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,569 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,870 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,288 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,491 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,999 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,989 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,060 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,609 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,716 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,744 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,151 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,176 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,525 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,333 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matias has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 117 years of records.
Girls and boys named Matias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matias, and how old are they?
24,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 25,392 Americans ever recorded as Matias. The median Matias alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 14,809 people named Matias (107 women and girls, 14,702 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 215 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 709 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,700 |
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 Matias born?
The states with the most babies named Matias are Texas, California and Florida, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 438 | #90 | 2.1× |
| California | 421 | #95 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 149 | #146 | 1.7× |
| New York | 98 | #202 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 85 | #141 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 70 | #125 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 68 | #189 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 61 | #167 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 58 | #141 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 56 | #220 | 0.7× |
Where Matias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Matias is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 Matias 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 59,104 babies since 1880, Matias is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,140 of their 4,320 babies (50%), again the most given.
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 Matias
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 Matias and names like it
- Compare Matias and MathiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMatias peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matias since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Matias: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Matias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Matias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.