Given name & surname

Matheis

Matheis is a surname from German.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Matheis comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From German Matheis.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2025. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Matheis through the years

Babies since 1880
5
5 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2025
5 babies
2025
5
#13,236 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01232025Highest share 20252.9
Matheis in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2025–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,236 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 907 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Matheis’s family of names

Matheis may belong to the same name family as MATHEISS. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Matheis’s family in the name graph

MatheisMathéis

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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