Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mathijs isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mathijs through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mathijs’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Mathijs has a related form in Matthijs. In Dutch usage, Mathijs has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Matías.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Mateoequivalent
- Matthewequivalent
- Matteoequivalent
- Mathiasequivalent
- Matthiasequivalent
- Mattiasequivalent
- Mateusequivalent
- Mattiaequivalent
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- Mathieuequivalent
- Mattisequivalent
- Matveyequivalent
- Matthieuequivalent
- Mateuszequivalent
- Mattiequivalent
- Matteusequivalent
- Mateuequivalent
- Mateequivalent
- Matijaequivalent
- Maciejequivalent
- Matejequivalent
- Matityahuequivalent
- Mazzeoequivalent
- Matjažequivalent
- מתתיהוequivalent
- Matfeiequivalent
- Mátyásequivalent
- Matthäusequivalent
- Matúšequivalent
- Mazhevequivalent
- Maffeoequivalent
- Матвейequivalent
- Matyášequivalent
- MatíasSpanish
People named Mathijs
- Matthijs BrilFlemish painter (1550-1583)
- Mathijs TielemansDutch association football playerborn 2002
- Mathijs PaasschensDutch cyclistborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Mathijs, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.