How rare is the name Matthias?

9,103 people in the United States have the first name Matthias, about 1 in 33,179. It ranks #2,616 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MATTHIAS

#2,616

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,103
About
1 in 33,179
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 9,103 people named Matthias, 55.6% reported their origin as White, 21.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 11.5% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Matthias peaked in 2025, when 854 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
854
In 2025*
854
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 13,676 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Matthias by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #905. The largest share of babies named Matthias, 61.6%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#2,20423
1890s#3,14415
1910s#3,323142
1920s#4,838118
1930s#5,86964
1940s#6,06369
1950s#6,59880
1960s#4,664179
1970s#4,558258
1980s#3,305527
1990s#3,034825
2000s#2,0152,056
2010s#1,1245,144
2020s#9054,176
Before 19010.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–271.8%
Silent Generation 1928–450.9%
Baby boom 1946–641.4%
Generation X 1965–802.9%
Millennials 1981–967.4%
Generation Z 1997–1223.7%
2013 and later61.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Matthias is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Matthias has been most common in Alaska (3.4×), New Mexico (3.1×), and Arizona (2.4×), and least common in Louisiana (0.19×).

10,556 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Matthias

#2,614 Loraine · 9,120#2,615 Lakisha · 9,110#2,617 Murray · 9,102#2,618 Edwina · 9,100

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Matthias, most common first.

#1,910 Matias · 14,809#2,524 Mathias · 9,628#8,114 Mattias · 1,802#9,663 Mathis · 1,425#14,441 Matthews · 816#24,941 Mattis · 383#35,138 Mattheus · 230

Also a last name

As a last name, Matthias ranks #11,996 of 156,621, with 2,487 people. See Matthias as a last name

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