Mattias
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mattias is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Benin it is the 16th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Matthias.
- SESweden1 in 202(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 562
- FIFinland1 in 86as Matias
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mattias itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
64,916 named Matias
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Ultimately from Latin Matthias.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mattias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | — | 64,916as Matias | 1 in 86 | 86K | Mattias | 28 |
| SE Sweden | #55 | 50,492 | 1 in 202 | 50K | Mattias | 166 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 30,877as Matias | 1 in 547 | 31K | — | 2 |
| BJ Benin | #16 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 562 | — | Mattias | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 22,897as Matias | 1 in 9.2K | 23K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | #836 | 22,818as Mathias | 1 in 257 | 23K | Mattias | 82 |
| NO Norway | #879 | 12,894as Mathias | 1 in 424 | 49K | Mattias | 50 |
64,916 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register), counting the spelling matias. 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Mattias 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 Dutch, Matthias, 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)
- Matthias Claudiusb. 1740DEnot in their usual nameGerman poet (1740-1815)
- Mattias Jonsonb. 1974SESwedish footballer
- Mattias Asperb. 1974SESwedish footballer
- Mattias Öhlundb. 1976SESwedish professional ice hockey player
- Mattias Ekströmb. 1978SESwedish racecar driver
- Mattias Karlssonb. 1991SESwedish table tennis player
- Mattias Johanssonb. 1992SESwedish association football player, born 1992
- Mattias Käitb. 1998EEEstonian association football player (born 1998)
- Mattias Svanbergb. 1999SESwedish association football player
- Mattias Skjelmoseb. 2000DKDanish cyclist, born 2000
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 73 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50K | #77 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 30K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.4K | #341 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,156 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 561 | #463 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 536 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 118 | #36,689 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 50 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Mattias mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin Matthias. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Mattias have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Matias, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mattias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mattias is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 202 people — even though Finland holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Mattias?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages; Mats is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Mattias a male or female name?
- Mattias 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 Mattias?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 50,492 people named Mattias, about 1 in 202 residents.
- How common is Mattias compared with other names?
- In Benin, Mattias is the 16th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattiasThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mattias” — the 16th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.