Matthias
Matthias was given to 854 boys in 2025, #372 among boys’ names; 13,676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Matthias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matthias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matthias mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Matthias is “a male given name from Hebrew, derived from the same source as Matthew.”
From Latin Matthias.
/məˈθaɪəs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matthias?
#372 among boys’ names, 2025
Matthias rose from #556 in 2015 to #372 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.27 to 0.50 per 1,000.
854 babies in 2025, the peak
Matthias peaked in 2025, when 854 boys were given it, #372 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 654 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 854 | #372 | 0.50 |
| 2024 | 654 | #472 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 628 | #483 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 664 | #464 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | 681 | #450 | 0.39 |
| 2020 | 695 | #426 | 0.40 |
| 2019 | 763 | #407 | 0.43 |
| 2018 | 788 | #406 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 660 | #461 | 0.36 |
| 2016 | 611 | #496 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 517 | #556 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 487 | #573 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 417 | #607 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 347 | #682 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 292 | #772 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 262 | #819 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 298 | #764 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 292 | #762 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 262 | #819 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 255 | #802 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 205 | #887 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 223 | #809 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 161 | #988 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,154 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,223 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,270 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,178 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,344 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,343 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,231 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,323 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,348 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,238 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,350 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 47 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 39 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 44 | #1,443 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 52 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 32 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,812 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,261 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,193 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,876 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,797 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,742 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,879 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,939 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,009 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,469 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,143 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,673 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,643 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,039 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,355 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,289 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,514 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,631 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,188 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,890 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,587 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,918 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,297 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,223 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,422 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,739 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,039 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,493 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,275 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,151 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,102 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 8 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 5 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matthias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matthias has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 119 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Matthias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matthias, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 13,676 Americans ever recorded as Matthias. The median Matthias alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 9,103 people named Matthias (23 women and girls, 9,080 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,143 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 132 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 357 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 967 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,360 |
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 Matthias born?
The states with the most babies named Matthias are Texas, California and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 139 | #283 | 0.9× |
| California | 131 | #282 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 38 | #483 | 0.9× |
| New York | 36 | #467 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #351 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 30 | #373 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 26 | #427 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 24 | #276 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 23 | #333 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #529 | 0.6× |
Where Matthias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Matthias is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Matthias 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 31,722 babies since 1880, Matthias is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 854 of their 2,005 babies (43%), again the second 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 Matthias
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 Matthias and names like it
- Compare Matthias and MathiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMatthias peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matthias since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Matthias: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Matthias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Matthias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.