Matias: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced muh-TEE-us · 3 syllables

Borrowed from Latin Matthias, from Ancient Greek (Matthias), earlier (Mattathias), from Hebrew (Matityahu).

How popular is Matias?

Matias was the #170 name in the US in 2025, given to 2,140 babies. It’s rising: up 297% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Matias in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Matias are older than 26; most are between 18 and 73. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Matias have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Matias is pronounced muh-TEE-us.

Matias was the #170 name in the US in 2025, given to 2,140 babies. It’s rising: up 297% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Matias are older than 26. Most are between 18 and 73.