Mathias
The boy's name Mathias has been in the national records since 1880, with 15,544 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 312th. About 14,000 Mathiases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Mathias
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,544
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 312th
- Rank in 2025
- 312th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Mathiases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,544 babies given the name since 1880, about 14,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 210 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mathiass
- Mathias Rust (born 1968)German amateur aviator and activist
- Mathias Jørgensen (born 1990)Danish association football player
- Mathias Jensen (born 1996)Danish association football player
- Mathías Olivera (born 1997)Uruguayan association football player
- Mathias Énard (born 1972)French writer, translator, and university teacher
- Mathias Gidsel (born 1999)Danish handball player
- Mathias Lessort (born 1995)French basketball player
- Mathias Boe (born 1980)Danish badminton player
People named Mathias with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mathias is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mathias is most concentrated in Florida (3.2×), New Mexico (2.6×), Nevada (2.4×), Arizona (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Mathias peaked:
Mathias elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Mathias | 40,655 | 59th |
| Denmark boys | Mathias | 23,418 | 1st |
| Norway boys | Mathias | 12,994 | 2nd |
| Belgium boys | Mathias | 6,316 | 24th |
| Austria boys | Mathias | 5,756 | 30th |
| Italy boys | Mathias | 5,406 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Mathias | 1,574 | 124th |
| England and Wales boys | Mathias | 981 | 406th |
| France girls | Mathias | 220 | 789th |
| Poland boys | Mathias | 77 birth registrations | 345th |
| Ireland boys | Mathias | 49 | 396th |
| Scotland boys | Mathias | 20 | 472nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Mathias | 3 | 433rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mathias: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mathias | 504 | 0.041% | 156th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mathias | 999 | 0.230% | 23rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mathias | 70 | 0.107% | 56th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Mathias | 1 | 0.027% | 14th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mathias is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.25% of children were given it – 256 of them.
Mathias: rank by region
In 2025, Mathias was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mathias | 229 | 26 |
| Wallonia | Mathias | 123 | 23 |
| Brussels | Mathias | 79 | 13 |
In 2024, Mathias was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Mathias | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mathias appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (64th), Brussels-Capital Region (79th), Province of Flemish Brabant (112th), Province of Hainaut (117th), Province of Liège (147th), Province of West Flanders (162nd) and Province of Antwerp (226th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mathias by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 15 | 421st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mathias among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mathias | 3,382 | 10,485 |
| Finland boys | Mathias | 1,035 | 2,566 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mathias | — | 812 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mathias lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,792 men called Mathias were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Mathias | 88 | 0.141 | 559 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Mathias | 133 | 0.132 | 633 |
| Palmas, Las | Mathias | 76 | 0.131 | 717 |
| Guadalajara | Mathias | 17 | 0.117 | 537 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Mathias | 35 | 0.112 | 690 |
| Soria | Mathias | 5 | 0.109 | 605 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mathias against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.