Matthëus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matthëus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6K
- SESweden1 in 79K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
11,085 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mattheus in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa, BR Brazil 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matthëus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 11,085 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Mattheus | 55 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Mattheus | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 1,341 | 1 in 158K | 1.3K | Mattheus | 4 |
| US United States | 230 | 1 in 1.4M | 228 | Mattheus | 102 |
| SE Sweden | 129 | 1 in 79K | 129 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 38 | 1 in 154K | 38 | — | — |
11,085 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 171 | #3,168 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Matthëus a male or female name?
- Matthëus 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 Matthëus have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Matthëus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mattheus.
- Where is Matthëus most common?
- Matthëus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matthëus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 11,085 people named Matthëus, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Matthëus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matth%C3%ABusThe 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, “Matthëus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.