Meaning not yet researched.
Matheus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,522 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,522 in 2007; #2,201 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Matheus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,201 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,522.
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Matheus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,522 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 104 (2007).
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Matheus, making it the 2,201st most common boys’ name of the year, up 210 places from #2,411 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 58 boys named Matheus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,522, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 104. For comparison, it was #3,200 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Matheus in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,688 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 660 babies named Matheus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 598 US boys were named Matheus; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,278 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Matheus ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #496 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mathias (15,544 babies since 1880), Mathis (1,975 babies since 1880) and Mateusz (1,156 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mathayus and Matthaeus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mathayus (280), Matthaeus (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Matheus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 10 | #496 | #463 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,173 | #1,162 |
| California | 10 | #1,654 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,946 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 65 | #2,201 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,411 |
| 2023 | — | — | 59 | #2,355 |
| 2022 | — | — | 81 | #1,931 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,610 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,644 |
| 2019 | — | — | 69 | #2,103 |
| 2018 | — | — | 75 | #1,969 |
| 2017 | — | — | 46 | #2,701 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,649 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,200 |
| 2014 | — | — | 50 | #2,505 |
| 2013 | — | — | 46 | #2,613 |
| 2012 | — | — | 48 | #2,578 |
| 2011 | — | — | 49 | #2,536 |
| 2010 | — | — | 72 | #1,948 |
| 2009 | — | — | 64 | #2,134 |
| 2008 | — | — | 81 | #1,819 |
| 2007 | — | — | 104 | #1,522 |
| 2006 | — | — | 95 | #1,557 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,419 |
| 2004 | — | — | 73 | #1,741 |
| 2003 | — | — | 55 | #2,070 |
| 2002 | — | — | 44 | #2,358 |
| 2001 | — | — | 47 | #2,209 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,077 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,704 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,326 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,048 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,317 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,394 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,324 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,314 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,337 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,901 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,027 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,085 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).