Matthias

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Matthias is ranked 471st among boys in 2024 (653 births). Its best rank was 405th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #471up 11 from 2023
Births in 2024: 6530.04% of boys
Peak year: 2018788 births
Best rank: #405in 2018
Since 1880: 12,816people given the name

Babies named Matthias, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

12,816 boys have been named Matthias in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 788 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 40%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Matthias
1880s	23
1890s	15
1910s	142
1920s	118
1930s	64
1940s	69
1950s	80
1960s	179
1970s	258
1980s	526
1990s	825
2000s	2,056
2010s	5,143
2020s	3,318

In 2018, its biggest year

Matthias was the 405th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Matthias

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.