Given name · also Latin
Mattathias
“gift of Yah”
Mattathias is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in English and Latin.
Original LatinMattathiās
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Mattathias means “gift of Yah.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Mattathias comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Mattathiās, from Ancient Greek Μᾰττᾰθῐ́ᾱς, from Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Mattathias appears in Luke 3:25, Luke 3:26.
- Luke 3:25
- Luke 3:26
From biblical name research
Mattathias through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,239 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. 13,239 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.
Mattathias’s family of names
In English usage, Mattathias shares an earlier linguistic root with Matthew. In Latin usage, Mattathias has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Matatiasz. In English usage, Mattathias has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Matatías.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mattathias has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Mattathias comes from · 2 names
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 15
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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