Meaning not yet researched.
Matias: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,140 in 2025. Its best rank was #159 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #159 in 2024; #170 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Matias in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#170 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #159.
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Matias: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,140 boys in 2025. Peak: #159 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 2,265 (2024).
In 2025, 2,140 US boys were named Matias, making it the 170th most common boys’ name of the year, down 11 places from #159 in 2024. That is 125 fewer than the 2,265 boys named Matias in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #159, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,265. For comparison, it was #459 in 2015 and #1,564 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Matias in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 25,392 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 12,029 babies named Matias.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18,166 US boys were named Matias; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,265. In 2025 that was about 1 in 798 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Matias ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #90 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Mathias (15,544 babies since 1880), Matthias (13,676 babies since 1880), Mattias (2,681 babies since 1880) and Mathis (1,975 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Matisse, Mathius and Matyas 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: Matisse (582), Mathius (231), Matyas (190), Matis (161), Mathais (37), Mathys (25), Mates (16), Matais (14), Mathyas (13), Mateos (11), Matus (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 Matias 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 438 | #90 | #270 |
| California | 421 | #95 | #337 |
| New Mexico | 20 | #97 | #303 |
| Oregon | 33 | #124 | — |
| Arizona | 70 | #125 | #432 |
| Colorado | 56 | #126 | #507 |
| Nevada | 24 | #131 | #288 |
| Illinois | 85 | #141 | #591 |
| Washington | 58 | #141 | #621 |
| Maryland | 42 | #143 | #515 |
| Connecticut | 26 | #145 | #344 |
| Florida | 149 | #146 | #229 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #156 | #278 |
| New Jersey | 61 | #167 | #375 |
| North Carolina | 68 | #189 | #806 |
| New York | 98 | #202 | #385 |
| Virginia | 43 | #205 | #421 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #208 | #614 |
| Georgia | 56 | #220 | #694 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #224 | — |
| South Carolina | 24 | #239 | — |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #244 | #464 |
| Idaho | 11 | #246 | — |
| Minnesota | 25 | #248 | #686 |
| Kansas | 15 | #256 | — |
| Utah | 20 | #261 | #736 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #261 | — |
| Tennessee | 32 | #278 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #284 | — |
| Iowa | 13 | #300 | — |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #311 | #445 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #359 | — |
| Michigan | 23 | #386 | #698 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #387 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #394 | #907 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #396 | — |
| Indiana | 16 | #446 | — |
| Alabama | 11 | #475 | — |
| Ohio | 18 | #572 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #626 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 2,140 | #170 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,840 | 2,265 | #159 |
| 2023 | — | — | 2,199 | #164 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,945 | #196 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,721 | #225 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,754 | #216 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,645 | #229 |
| 2018 | — | — | 2,015 | #202 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,565 | #236 |
| 2016 | — | — | 917 | #363 |
| 2015 | — | — | 664 | #459 |
| 2014 | — | — | 559 | #504 |
| 2013 | — | — | 465 | #567 |
| 2012 | — | — | 457 | #565 |
| 2011 | — | — | 442 | #567 |
| 2010 | — | — | 329 | #711 |
| 2009 | — | — | 332 | #716 |
| 2008 | — | — | 267 | #823 |
| 2007 | — | — | 270 | #799 |
| 2006 | — | — | 246 | #829 |
| 2005 | — | — | 212 | #869 |
| 2004 | — | — | 195 | #893 |
| 2003 | — | — | 138 | #1,117 |
| 2002 | — | — | 153 | #1,014 |
| 2001 | — | — | 136 | #1,066 |
| 2000 | — | — | 94 | #1,358 |
| 1999 | — | — | 77 | #1,484 |
| 1998 | — | — | 103 | #1,200 |
| 1997 | — | — | 90 | #1,281 |
| 1996 | — | — | 88 | #1,260 |
| 1995 | — | — | 53 | #1,698 |
| 1994 | — | — | 71 | #1,394 |
| 1993 | — | — | 54 | #1,654 |
| 1992 | — | — | 58 | #1,538 |
| 1991 | — | — | 56 | #1,554 |
| 1990 | — | — | 48 | #1,693 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,605 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,900 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,925 |
| 1986 | — | — | 39 | #1,659 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,951 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,821 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,887 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,802 |
| 1981 | — | — | 37 | #1,622 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,090 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,695 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,445 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,041 |
| 1976 | — | — | 22 | #2,150 |
| 1975 | — | — | 33 | #1,583 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,421 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,289 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,952 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,179 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,968 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,664 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,939 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,429 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,862 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,714 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,776 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,726 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,616 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,983 |
| 1960 | — | — | 18 | #1,956 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,373 |
| 1958 | — | — | 15 | #2,140 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,345 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,143 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,830 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,935 |
| 1952 | — | — | 15 | #2,052 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,884 |
| 1950 | — | — | 23 | #1,564 |
| 1949 | — | — | 23 | #1,569 |
| 1948 | — | — | 22 | #1,591 |
| 1947 | — | — | 23 | #1,581 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,863 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,342 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,563 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,677 |
| 1942 | — | — | 20 | #1,617 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,569 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,456 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,560 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,870 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,288 |
| 1936 | — | — | 21 | #1,491 |
| 1935 | — | — | 14 | #1,999 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,989 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,907 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,060 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,897 |
| 1930 | — | — | 28 | #1,385 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,408 |
| 1928 | — | — | 32 | #1,287 |
| 1927 | — | — | 19 | #1,851 |
| 1926 | — | — | 23 | #1,596 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,148 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,609 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,717 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,111 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,873 |
| 1920 | — | — | 18 | #1,933 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,565 |
| 1918 | — | — | 20 | #1,745 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,152 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #2,016 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,852 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,816 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,642 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,177 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,526 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,476 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,334 |
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).