Matheus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/matews/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matheus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 325(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.5K
- USUnited States1 in 137K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
652,373 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matheus 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #52 | 652,373 | 1 in 325 | 652K | Matheus | 236 |
| NA Namibia | #17 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 18 | Matheus | 11 |
| US United States | — | 2,421 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Matheus | 234 |
| PT Portugal | #408 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | Matheus | 78 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,199 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | — | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 693 | 1 in 15K | 693 | Matheus | 26 |
652,373 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Matheus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, männl. Vom., niederländische Ne benform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Dutch, obsolete form of Matteüs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, Matthew the apostle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Matheus Nachtergaeleb. 1969BRBrazilian actor
- Dóriab. 1994BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Matheus Pereirab. 1996BRBrazilian association football player (born 1996)
- Matheus Jesusb. 1997BRBrazilian association football player (1997-)
- Matheus Nunesb. 1998BRPortuguese footballer (born 1998)
- Matheus Cunhab. 1999BRBrazilian association football player do brazilian player (born 1999)
- Bentob. 1999BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Matheus Saldanhab. 1999BRBrazilian association football player
- Antony dos Santosb. 2000BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Matheus França de Oliveirab. 2004BRBrazilian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 652K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 648K | #24 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 350K | #131 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 40K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.5K | #24 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #6,581 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.2K | #652 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 693 | #2,194 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 397 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 65 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 63 | — |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 18 | #12 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Matheus have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 652 thousand people named Matheus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matheus.
- Where is Matheus most common?
- Matheus is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 325 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Matheus?
- A machine transcription gives /matews/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Matheus mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Matheus?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Matheus a male or female name?
- Matheus 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.
- How common is the name Matheus?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 652,373 people named Matheus in 2022, about 1 in 325 residents.
- How common is Matheus compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Matheus is the 52nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Matheus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matheusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Matheus” — the 52nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.