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The first name 
Matheus

Matheus is a first name for boys.

When two boys called Matheus meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Matheus is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Matheus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Matheus is #2,168 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Matheus.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Matheus

Matheus -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Matheus did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Matheus seemed to be more popular than ever in 2007. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,417, 104 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Matheus, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Matheus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Matheus in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Matheus a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,737 - with a total of 80 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Matheus has 7 letters 
and begins with an M

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 seven letters, the name Matheus has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Matheus

If your name is Matheus 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...

This is how you spell the name Matheus

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Matheus, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Tiger

Hat

Elephant

Unicorn

Sun

This is how the name Matheus is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Matheus in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Matheus

Matheus

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Matheus

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Matheus is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
A
T
H
E
U
S

Have you ever waved the name Matheus

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.

M
A
T
H
E
U
S

Beeping like crazy...

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. Matheus sounds like this: