Matias
The story
Matias is the Spanish and Portuguese road to Matthias, from the Hebrew for gift of God, and its American record is a quiet century followed by a loud decade. From the 1900s through the 1980s it never left the books and never passed 350 in a decade, the signature of a name kept alive by Hispanic families against the current. Then it compounded: about 700 in the 1990s, 2,000 in the 2000s, 9,100 in the 2010s, and already 12,000 so far this decade, past its entire 2010s total with years still to run. It is a boys' name outright; the record shows five girls ever. At home the accent lands on the end, Matías, though American paperwork often drops it. Around it stand Mateo, Matthew and Matthias, four doors into the same old gift.
Matias around the world
One shared root links 8 names across 5 languages.
Shared root: from Hebrew Mattityahu "gift of Yahweh", via Greek Matthaios
The constellation
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Matias peaked in the 2020s.
Popularity in Brazil
22,897 people · the #978 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 8,850 · median age 16
Among people named Matias living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 5,434 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Matias
Most people given the name Matias in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Matias deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Matias truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Matias fits with your family’s names and surname.
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