Matthieu is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Matthieu in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Matthieu in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Matthieu by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Matthieu ranks at #3,771. That means there are 3,770 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Matthieu.
In fact, the name Matthieu hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Matthieu wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1998, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,187, 36 parents chose it in 1998 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Matthieu, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Matthieu was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Matthieu a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 3,736, for a total of 24 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Matthieu seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Matthieu is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 153 Americans in total bear this name. And these 153 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Matthieu and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Matthieu in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 223,722 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Matthieu present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With eight letters, the name Matthieu is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Matthieu and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Matthieu, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Tiger
Tiger
Hat
Igloo
Elephant
Unicorn
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Matthieu
Matthieu
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Matthieu sounds like this:
