Matías

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Matías is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Matthias (Biblical figure).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 86(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 215
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 282

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

≈210,000 people, est.

#622 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

Sources
349 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 86 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matias in AR Argentina, CL Chile, BR Brazil and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Matthias (Biblical figure)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matías counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Matías is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#50≈210,000 est.≈1 in 2152.5KMatias203
FI Finland#45364,9161 in 8686KMatias48
CL Chile#92≈64,000 est.≈1 in 2831.3KMatias173
EC Ecuador—30,8771 in 54731KMatias60
BR Brazil#33522,8971 in 9.2K23KMatias178
PY Paraguay#54≈16,000 est.≈1 in 461—Matias55
UY Uruguay#15≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2821Matias101

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Matías is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lao given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Matias, Mátíás, Matìas, Matia'S, Matiás

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Matìas, Matias, Matiaš, Matiáš, Matiás

  • Arabic given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Egypt

    Also written Matias, Matìas, Mätìås, Mátíás, M̷a̷t̷í̷a̷s̷

  • Catalan given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Andorra

    Also written Matias

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Matias, Mätîäs, Matïas, Matìas

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Finland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Matias, Matìas, Matiaš, Màtìàs, Mátíás

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Matías is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Hebreo, de Matatías, vía gr. y lat. Matthias; variante de Mateo.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

17001800190020002100José Matías Delgado, b. 1767Matías González, b. 1925Matías Almeyda, b. 1973Augusto Fernández, b. 1986Javier Pastore, b. 1989Matías Vecino, b. 1991Matías Kranevitter, b. 1993Matías Nahuel, b. 1996Matías Viña, b. 1997Matías Soulé, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Matías
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20075.9K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19985.6K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19965.4K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20025.3K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19995.2K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20085.1K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19975.1K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20015K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20094.9K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20004.8K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20034.6K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19954.3K—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Matías have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 212 thousand people named Matías in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matias.
Where is Matías most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matías is densest in Finland — about 1 in 86 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Matías mean, and where does it come from?
Matthias (Biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Matías?
In Finland, the national register counted 64,916 people named Matías, about 1 in 86 residents.
How common is Matías compared with other names?
In Argentina, Matías is the 50th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
Is Matías a male or female name?
Matías is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Matías?
In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Mathew are forms of the same name in other languages.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Matías” — the 50th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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