Matias
Masculine · “Gift of Yahweh”
Matias is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 25,387 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Matias is the Spanish, Portuguese and Finnish form of Matthias — a name carried out of Hebrew into Greek, then into half the languages of Europe, and shortened the same friendly way in most of them. It has three open vowels and no hard consonants, and it arrives in English-speaking mouths already knowing how to be said. Few names sit as comfortably in Santiago and Helsinki at once.
How old is the name Matias?
Matias first appears in US birth records in 1904 — 121 years ago. The typical Matias is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 24,500 people named Matias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Matias most popular?
Matias peaked in 2024, reaching #159 nationally. Today it ranks #170, 11 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mattityahu to Matias
The story of Matias
The Hebrew name Mattityahu was rendered as Matthias by the Greek translators who shaped the New Testament, where it belongs to the apostle chosen by lot to replace Judas among the twelve. Latin kept it as Mathias, and from there it spread through Christian Europe, losing its 'h' in the Iberian languages and gaining a written accent in Spanish: Matías. Finland took the same Latin form and stressed it on the first syllable instead, making Matias a thoroughly Nordic name as well. In the United States the spelling without the accent has become standard, which lets one form serve families arriving from Chile, Argentina, Spain and Finland alike.
Meaning
Gift of Yahweh — gift of God
From Hebrew Mattityahu, built from mattan, 'gift', and the divine name. Matthew comes from the same Hebrew root by a slightly different road, which is why the two names are cousins rather than variants.
How the name formed
- Mattityahu
- Matthias
- Mathias
- Matías
- Matias
Related forms: Matías · Matias · Matthias · Mathias · Mattias · Mattityahu
Pronouncing Matias
mah-TEE-ahs
Spanish and Portuguese stress the middle syllable, which is how it is most often said in the US. Finnish speakers stress the first: MAH-tee-ahs. Both are correct for their own tradition, so it is worth deciding early which one your family will use.
Nicknames for Matias
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1904
- Most boys named
- 20232,199 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #159reached in 2024
- Change vs 2023
- −2.7%2,140 in 2025, from 2,199
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Matias in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Matías in Spanish — spelling variant
- Matias in Finnish — same name
- Matthias in German — same name
- Mathias in French — spelling variant
- Mattias in Swedish — spelling variant
- Mattityahu in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Matiass among us
people named Matias are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 798 born in 2025 was named Matias
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cesar test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Matias's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cesar climbed just as high around 2004, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cesar's path sketches the road Matias is walking now.
Matias is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Matias is headed
Matias should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Matias beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Matias in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Works unchanged across Spanish, Portuguese and Finnish, so it crosses borders and family lines without needing a translation or a second spelling.
- Has established short forms in more than one language — Mati, Matt, Tias — rather than depending on a nickname you would have to invent.
- Nearly two thousand years of continuous written record behind it, from Greek scripture through Latin Europe to the present.
- Familiar in sound to English speakers through Matthew and Mateo, so it is rarely mispronounced outright.
- The Spanish spelling is Matías, with an accent that US forms and databases routinely drop. Families who care about keeping it will spend some time correcting paperwork; families who don't will find the plain spelling perfectly settled here.
- It sits close to Mateo, Matteo, Mathias and Matthew, all of which are in active use. Expect a certain amount of being called the wrong one of the five, especially in a classroom.
- Stress placement genuinely differs between the Spanish and Finnish traditions, so a Matias with roots in both may hear his own name two ways at family gatherings.
- Its recent growth in the US has been steady rather than sudden, so it is climbing without yet being ordinary — a position that can change over a childhood.
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Frequently asked
- How many Matiass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 24,500 people named Matias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Matias in 2025?
- Matias ranks #170 among US boy names in 2025, with 2,140 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Matias?
- About 1 in every 798 US boys born in 2025 was named Matias — 2,140 in all.
- Will my child share the name Matias with classmates?
- Matias will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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