Matias

given name · Latin script

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

Matias 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. In Portuguese, recorded as a male given name, equivalent to English Matthias.

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

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Americanized form of Czech Mat’as (from Czech Matej), or of some other Slavic form of the personal name Mathias (see Matthew).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

How Matias is read(measured from records)

Matias is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish87%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Matias in Spanish.

  • Portuguese7.8%

    a male given name, equivalent to English Matthias

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Finnish6.3%

    Matthias

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matias 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 Matias 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)

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

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Matías, Matiaš

  • Catalan given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Andorra

    Also written Matías

  • Lao given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

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

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Matìas, Matías, Matiaš, Matiáš, Matiás

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Finland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Matías, Matìas, Matiaš, Màtìàs, Mátíás

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Matías, Mätîäs, Matïas, Matìas

66 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)

Matias 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.

  • Americanized form of Czech Mat’as (from Czech Matej), or of some other Slavic form of the personal name Mathias (see Matthew).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from the personal name (see Matthew).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, männl. Vom., finnische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Latin, accusative plural of matia

    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)

14001600180020002200Matthias Grünewald, b. 1480Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, b. 1557Theodor Mommsen, b. 1817Matthias Sindelar, b. 1903Matthias Habich, b. 1940Matthias Sammer, b. 1967Matthias Schoenaerts, b. 1977Kimi Räikkönen, b. 1979Matthias Ginter, b. 1994Gonçalo Ramos, b. 2001

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 99 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Matias
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—86K#13
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—65K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202431K#75
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202223K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—23K#978
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—15K#1,640
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20205.4K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.2K#121
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024683—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2015557—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)2015557—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—212#978

Reference works 8

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

Where does the name Matias come from?
Americanized form of Czech Mat’as (from Czech Matej), or of some other Slavic form of the personal name Mathias (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Matias have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 212 thousand people named Matias in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matias.
Where is Matias most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matias is densest in Finland — about 1 in 86 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
Is Matias a male or female name?
Matias 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 Matias?
In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Mathew are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Matias mean?
In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Matthias
How common is the name Matias?
In Finland, the national register counted 64,916 people named Matias, about 1 in 86 residents.
How common is Matias compared with other names?
In Argentina, Matias is the 50th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.

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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, “Matias” — the 50th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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