Matheus

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Matheus is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 325◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 5.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 138K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈658K ●

across 11 countries

#339 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
229 ●

376K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 325 ◐

Brazil

Meaning & origin●

from the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Matheus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#61652,373365K rec.1 in 325652KMatheus229
US United States—2,4196.6K rec.1 in 138K2.4KMatheus214
PT Portugal#4181,606592 rec.—listedMatheus75
EC Ecuador—1,199△29 rec.1 in 14K1.2K—16
SE Sweden—693△70 rec.1 in 15K693—24
ES Spain—648366 rec.1 in 77K648Matheus60
PE Peru—474687 rec.——Matheus24
GB United Kingdom—468276 rec.—3Matheus75
IT Italy—376247 rec.—3Matheus50
NO Norway—332175 rec.1 in 16K1.2KMatheus22
PY Paraguay—286138 rec.——Matheus20
IN India—270117 rec.——Matheus20

Roughly 652K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 325). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese7M91%
  • English674K9%
  • Western Frisian17K1%
  • Dutch15K1%
  • Spanish9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese7,029,05691%
English674,0419%
Western Frisian16,8151%
Dutch14,5151%
Spanish8,9911%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Matheus is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name722K records spelled Matheus35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Netherlands, United States, Australia

    Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

    Also written Matheüs, Mathëus, Matheues, Mathéus, Mäthëüs

  • Spanish given name70K records spelled Matheus9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Ecuador, Peru

    Also written Mathéus, Matheús, Mäthëüš, Mâthêûs, Mãthêuş

  • French given name4.8K records spelled Matheus7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mathéus, Matheüs, Mäthëüs, Mathëus, MathÊus

  • a separate given name3.7K records spelled Matheus3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written MathÊus, Matheüs

  • Indonesian given name2.8K records spelled Matheus4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mathëus, Mäthèüš

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name2.3K records spelled Matheus6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Måthëūs

  • Russian given name801 records spelled Matheus5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Mathéus, Матхеус

48 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●

Matheus 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.

  • In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.

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

  • In German, männl. Vom., niederländische Ne­ benform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Dutch, obsolete form of Matteüs

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

  • In ang, Matthew 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.

Over time●

02550751001940196019802000202095 · 2019

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Matheus in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1936–2024
Yearrecords
19361
19531
19571
19641
19701
19751
19781
19812
19861
19912
19921
19934
19942
19954
19964
19973
199810
19999
20009
200111
200216
200318
200413
200516
200616
200722
200829
200929
201041
201148
201248
201363
201461
201552
201664
201757
201869
201995
202070
202180
202272
202391
202463

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 43 years between 1936–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Matheus Nachtergaele, b. 1969Dória, b. 1994Matheus Pereira, b. 1996Matheus Jesus, b. 1997Matheus Nunes, b. 1998Matheus Cunha, b. 1999Bento, b. 1999Matheus Saldanha, b. 1999Antony dos Santos, b. 2000Matheus França de Oliveira, b. 2004

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●

Attested in 68 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Matheus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022652K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—648K#24
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—350K#131
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202040K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.5K#24
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.8K#884
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,581
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.2K#652
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.2K#1,475
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020986#26,112
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—693#2,194
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010664#34,185

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 598 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matheus?
We estimate roughly 658 thousand people bear Matheus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Matheus have the most bearers?
We estimate about 652 thousand people bear Matheus in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matheus.
Where is Matheus most common?
Matheus is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 325 people carrying it.
How common is Matheus compared with other names?
In Brazil, Matheus is the 61st most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Matheus a male or female name?
Matheus 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 does the name Matheus mean?
Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mattheus (see Matthew).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Matheus” — the 61st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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