Given name & surname · also Dutch
Matheus
Matheus is a surname from Dutch, ultimately from Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Matheus comes from Dutch, and ultimately from Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matheus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,688
- 1,688 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 104 babies
- 2025
- 65
- #2,201 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +10%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 65 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,201 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 9.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 104 in 2007. In 2025, Florida had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (11). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,421 as a first name in 2020; 986 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.
Matheus’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Matheus
- Matheus CunhaBrazilian association football player do brazilian player (born 1999)
- Matheus NunesPortuguese footballer (born 1998)
- Matheus FernandesBrazilian association football playerborn 1998
- MatheusBrazilian footballerborn 1983
- Matheus PereiraBrazilian association football player (born 1996)
- DóriaBrazilian footballerborn 1994
- MatheusBrazilian association football playerborn 1989
- Matheus FerrazBrazilian association football playerborn 1985
- Matheus JesusBrazilian association football player (1997-)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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