Mathéus

surname · Latin script

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

Mathéus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch and Portuguese Matheus.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 325(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 137K
  • ECEcuador1 in 14K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

652,373 people, 2022

Sources
176 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

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:

Locally spelled Matheus in BR Brazil, US United States, NO Norway and 1 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)

Borrowed from Dutch and Portuguese Matheus.

Sources 3

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mathéus 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 Mathéus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil652,3731 in 325652KMatheus9
US United States2,4211 in 137K2.4KMatheus176
EC Ecuador1,1991 in 14K1.2K—5
SE Sweden6931 in 15K693—9
ES Spain6481 in 77K648Matheus16
NO Norway3321 in 16K1.2KMatheus7
DK Denmark1271 in 46K127——

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; INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mathéus is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Brazil

    Also written Matheus, Matheüs, MathÊus, Mathëus, Mäthëüs

  • Portuguese given name36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, France, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Chinese, Swahili

    Also written Matheus, Matheüs, Mäthëüs, M̶a̶t̶h̶e̶u̶s̶, Mätheüs

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay

    Also written Matheus, Matheús, Mâthêûs, Måtheus, Mãthêuş

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 3 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Mathéus mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Dutch and Portuguese Matheus. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Mathéus have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 652 thousand people named Mathéus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matheus.
Where is Mathéus most common?
Mathéus is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 325 people carrying it.
How common is the name Mathéus?
In Brazil, the national register counted 652,373 people named Mathéus in 2022, about 1 in 325 residents.

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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, “Mathéus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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