Mathias is a variant of German Matthias, derived via Greek Mattathias from the Hebrew Mattityahu meaning ‘gift of Yahweh’. The English form is Matthew.
Mathias is a male first name.
The name Mathias isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Mathias ranks 453. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Mathias. In the entire USA, approximately 8,892 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mathias. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Mathias is a variant of German Matthias, derived via Greek Mattathias from the Hebrew Mattityahu meaning ‘gift of Yahweh’. The English form is Matthew.
Mathias rose ... somewhat in popularity since 2000, but remains a rare name in the U.S.. In the early 20th century, it was more common than the spelling Matthias.
Mathias is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1902, where the name Mathias was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Mathias and were born in the USA in 1902, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Mathias even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1883, it ranked on position 379 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mathias was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Mathias has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 797 times and thus landed on position 385 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 797 boys with the name Mathias, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
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 Mathias 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.
If your name is Mathias 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 Mathias, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Tiger
Hat
Igloo
Apple
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Mathias
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. Mathias sounds like this:
