Mathias
Where Mathias comes from
Mathias hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
- 1968Mathias Rust bornGerman amateur aviator and activist
- 1990Mathias Jørgensen bornDanish association football player
- 2025Peak, #3121,087 babies named Mathias — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Mathias Rust · German amateur aviator and activist, born 1968
- Mathias Jørgensen · Danish association football player, born 1990
- Mathias Jensen · Danish association football player, born 1996
- Mathias Énard · French writer, translator, and university teacher, born 1972
- Mathias Gidsel · Danish handball player, born 1999
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.