Mathieu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Hebrew Mattityahu, “gift of Yahweh”; feast day of Saint Matthew
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/matjø/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mathieu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 485(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.1K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 485 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Hebrew Mattityahu, “gift of Yahweh”; feast day of Saint Matthew.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mathieu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #78 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 485 | 153K | Mathieu | 417 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #265 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Mathieu | 19 |
| CM Cameroon | #190 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Mathieu | 30 |
| CA Canada | #510 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2 | Mathieu | 278 |
| BE Belgium | #130 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 6K | Mathieu | 151 |
| CH Switzerland | #360 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 965 | Mathieu | 102 |
| US United States | — | 2,843 | 1 in 117K | 5.6K | Mathieu | 309 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Mathieu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Hebrew Mattityahu via Latin Matthaeus, meaning 'gift of YHWH'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, French form of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, 'gift of Yahweh'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, from the personal name Mathieu, vernacular derivative of Latin Mathias or Matthaeus (see Matthew).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, du nom hébreu Mattiyyā́h, ‘don du Seigneur’.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du grec Matthaios, « don de Dieu »; forme française de Matthieu/Matthias.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Mathieu de Montmorency-Lavalb. 1767FRFrench statesman
- Mathieu Kérékoub. 1933BJpolitician (1933-2015)
- Mathieu Carrièreb. 1950DEGerman actor
- Mathieu Vadepiedb. 1963FRFrench cinematographer
- Mathieu Amalricb. 1965FRFrench actor and filmmaker
- Mathieu Kassovitzb. 1967FRFrench actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter (born 1967)
- Mathieu Demyb. 1972FRFrench actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
- Mathieu Valbuenab. 1984FRFrench footballer (born 1984)
- Mathieu Flaminib. 1984FRFrench footballer (born 1984)
- Mathieu Debuchyb. 1985FRFrench footballer (born 1985)
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 85 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6K | #69 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 5.7K | #74 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.6K | #5,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,482 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.5K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 965 | #1,231 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Mathieu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew Mattityahu, “gift of Yahweh”; feast day of Saint Matthew. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Mathieu?
- A machine transcription gives /matjø/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Mathieu a male or female name?
- Mathieu 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.
- In which country does Mathieu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Mathieu in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mathieu.
- How common is the name Mathieu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,843 people named Mathieu in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Mathieu compared with other names?
- In France, Mathieu is the 78th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Mathieu?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mathieuThe 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, “Mathieu” — the 78th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.