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Gift of Yahweh, in the Mathias-derived name family.
French documents a dialectal Mathias variant; Norwegian documents a Mattis spelling connected with medieval Mathias. Mathias and Matthias entries trace that family to the Hebrew gift formation with the divine name. This is a name-family interpretation, not an English surname translation.
French and Norwegian name forms linked to Mathias, with an ultimate Hebrew root.
The French dialectal variant and Norwegian Mattis spelling are distinct immediate routes. The parent family passed through Greek and Latin; the same English spelling is documented as a surname, not used here to establish an English given-name reading.
MAH-tiss or MAT-tiss
Official US university English-language guide for the exact first name. Other bearers may prefer another reading. Maine supplies MAH-tiss; Miami supplies MAT-tiss. Both documented individual guides are retained rather than collapsed into one preferred reading.
Recorded English reading, as published. Accents and preferred pronunciations can differ.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
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| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 103 · preliminary | 322 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2006 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 6033 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2025 | Boys | 1,090 (rounded to 5) | 46 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 6 | 3256 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 35 | 3314 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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The exact French section documents male personal-name use. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Norwegian section documents male personal-name use. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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French documents a dialectal Mathias variant; Norwegian documents a Mattis spelling connected with medieval Mathias. Mathias and Matthias entries trace that family to the Hebrew gift formation with the divine name. This is a name-family interpretation, not an English surname translation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis, Mathias, Matthias entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathias&oldid=92481962; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Matthias&oldid=92481965. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Recorded French personal-name reading. The English section offers surname audio, which is not used to manufacture English personal-name IPA. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The French dialectal variant and Norwegian Mattis spelling are distinct immediate routes. The parent family passed through Greek and Latin; the same English spelling is documented as a surname, not used here to establish an English given-name reading. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis, Mathias, Matthias entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathias&oldid=92481962; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Matthias&oldid=92481965. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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Official US university English-language guide for the exact first name. Other bearers may prefer another reading. Maine supplies MAH-tiss; Miami supplies MAT-tiss. Both documented individual guides are retained rather than collapsed into one preferred reading. Credit: College Hockey Inc. and the supplying school sports information directors, 2025–26 men’s guide updated 29 December 2025, PDF page 5 and 6. Source: https://www.collegehockeyinc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-26MensPronunciations251229.pdf. License: source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names separated the printed first-name aid from surname aids and used hyphens between its syllables. Capitalization follows the source; no IPA inferred. No roster, source prose, images or audio republished.
Original brief factual summary; source rights retained
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Count for the accompanying school-supplied reading, not every language or bearer. Credit: College Hockey Inc. and the supplying school sports information directors, 2025–26 men’s guide updated 29 December 2025, PDF page 5 and 6. Source: https://www.collegehockeyinc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-26MensPronunciations251229.pdf. License: source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names separated the printed first-name aid from surname aids and used hyphens between its syllables. Capitalization follows the source; no IPA inferred. No roster, source prose, images or audio republished.
Original brief factual summary; source rights retained
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The French section explicitly identifies this dialectal variant relationship. Spellings and popularity counts remain separate. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Norwegian section explicitly identifies Mathis as a variant spelling of Mattis. This relationship is language-specific. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Mathis entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Mathis&oldid=91737225. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
