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Matias

Matias reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 159, and has been recorded 25,392 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 170th. About 25,000 Matiases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Matias boys named Matias

By the numbers

Total US births
25,392
Estimated living today
25,000
Median age today
6
Peak year
2024
Best rank
159th
Rank in 2025
170th
First recorded
1904
Girls / boys
5 / 25,387

How old the living Matiases are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 25,392 babies given the name since 1904, about 25,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 22,000 of them are children and 230 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 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 Matiass

People named Matias with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Matias is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Matias is most concentrated in Texas (3.0×), Nevada (3.0×), Florida (3.0×), California (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Matias peaked:

All the names of 2024

Matias elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Spain boys Matias 3,856 57th
France boys Matias 2,650 411th
Italy boys Matias 2,231
Norway boys Matias 1,551 107th
England and Wales boys Matias 1,002 430th
Switzerland boys Matias +1 spelling 747 184th
Belgium boys Matias +1 spelling 526 323rd
Ireland boys Matias 71 329th
Poland boys Matias 41 birth registrations 392nd
Scotland boys Matias 19 588th

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.

Matias: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Matias 211 0.017% 318th
German boys Switzerland Matías 34 0.003% 899th
French boys Switzerland Matias 427 0.098% 65th
French boys Switzerland Matías 44 0.010% 326th
Italian boys Switzerland Matias 28 0.043% 76th
Italian boys Switzerland Matías 2 0.003% 184th
Romansh boys Switzerland Matias 1 0.027% 6th

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, Matias is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.15% of children were given it – 155 of them.

Matias: rank by region

In 2025, Matias was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Matias 714 7
Flanders Matías 806 6
Brussels Matias 265 5

In 2023, Matias was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

Region Spelling Place Children
La Rioja Matias 7 13

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matias appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (218th) and Brussels-Capital Region (265th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain 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.

Matias by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 4 584th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Matias 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
Finland boys Matias +1 spelling 10,241 64,998
Finland girls Matias 29

Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 64,998 who carry it, 10,241 go by it.

A count of people on a register – 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 Matias lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 18,598 men called Matias 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 Matias 988 1.587 100
Rioja, La Matias 191 1.185 122
Salamanca Matias 186 1.169 125
Murcia Matias 893 1.123 119
Jaén Matias 332 1.085 119
Cáceres Matias 199 1.035 146

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Matias 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.