In 2025, 35 US boys were named Mathis, making it the 3,356th most common boys’ name of the year, up 219 places from #3,575 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 32 boys named Mathis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,035, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 141, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,785 in 2015 and #1,926 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mathis in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 1,975 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 758 babies named Mathis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 668 US boys were named Mathis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Matthew (1,659,655 babies since 1880), Mateo (126,778 babies since 1880), Matteo (33,499 babies since 1880) and Mathias (15,544 babies since 1880).