Mathies
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a variant of the personal name Mathias (see Matthew)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/matjes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mathies is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 147K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 373K
- SESweden1 in 425K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)
891 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a variant of the personal name Mathias (see Matthew).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mathies is found
(measured from records)Mathies 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 891 | 1 in 373K | 1K | Mathies | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 79 | 1 in 2.7M | 79 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 57 | 1 in 147K | 57 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 39 | 1 in 443K | 112 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 128 | — | — |
891 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Mathies is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, patronymic from a pet form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Paul Mathiesb. 1911DEassociation football player
- Archibald Mathiesb. 1918USUnited States Army Air Forces Medal of Honor recipient
- Hildegard Mathiesb. 1969DEGerman journalist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mathies mean, and where does it come from?
- from a variant of the personal name Mathias (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mathies?
- In Spanish /matjes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mathies?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 891 people named Mathies, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mathies. After it come Brazil, Switzerland, Netherlands and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mathies most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mathies is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 147 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mathies?
- In the United States, the national register counted 891 people named Mathies in 2010, about 1 in 373 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mathies?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mathiesThe 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, “Mathies”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.