Given name & surname
Matthijs
“gift, reward”·“YHWH, God”
Matthijs is a masculine given name from Late Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Dutch.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Matthijs is built from elements meaning “gift, reward” and “YHWH, God”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Matthijs shares an earlier linguistic root with Matthew. An origin associated with Matthew is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Late Latin Matthiās, from Koine Greek Ματθαῖος, from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattiṯyāhū).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matthijs through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 8 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 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2014.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Matthijs’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Matthijs has a diminutive in Thijs. Matthijs shares a linguistic root with Matthew. In Dutch usage, Matthijs has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Mateo.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Matthijs has relatives in 4 languages.
10 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 44
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MateoSpanish
- Matthewcognate · English
- Matteoequivalent
- Mathiasequivalent
- Matthiasequivalent
- Mathewequivalent
- Mattiasdoublet · Dutch
- Mateusequivalent
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- Mathisequivalent
- Mattiaequivalent
- Mathieuequivalent
- Mattisequivalent
- Matveyequivalent
- Matthieucognate · French
- Mateuszequivalent
- Mattiequivalent
- Maciejequivalent
- Matejequivalent
- Madisequivalent
- Matteusequivalent
- Mateuequivalent
- Mateequivalent
- Matijaequivalent
- Мацвейequivalent
- Matsveiequivalent
- Matiesequivalent
- Maffeoequivalent
- Матвейequivalent
- Matthysequivalent
- Matyášequivalent
- MatíasSpanish
- MathewsonEnglish
- Matityahuequivalent
- Mazzeoequivalent
- Matjažequivalent
- מתתיהוequivalent
- Matfijequivalent
- Matfeiequivalent
- Mátyásequivalent
- Analequivalent
- Matthäusequivalent
- Matúšequivalent
- Mazhevequivalent
- Matteüsdoublet · Dutch
People named Matthijs
- Matthijs de LigtDutch association football player (born 1999)
- Matthijs BüchliDutch racing cyclistborn 1992
- Matthijs MarisDutch painter (1839-1917)
- Matthijs VellengaDutch rowerborn 1977
- Matthijs BrilFlemish painter (1550-1583)
- Matthijs VermeulenDutch composer (1888–1967)
- Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.Dutch film director (1965)
- Matthijs Brouwerfield hockey playerborn 1980
- Matthijs SiegenbeekDutch academic (1774-1854)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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