Given name & surname
Matius
“good”
Matius is a surname, possibly from Celtic, ultimately from Proto-Celtic. It is used in Indonesian and Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Matius possibly goes back to Proto-Celtic *matis, meaning “good.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Matius possibly comes from Celtic, and ultimately from Proto-Celtic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,237 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,237 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Matius’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Matius has a conventional equivalent in the English form Matthew. In Indonesian usage, Matius was borrowed from the Latin form MATTHAEUS. In Indonesian usage, Matius has a conventional equivalent in the German form Matthäus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Matius has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Celtic roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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