# Matthäus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/matthaus/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | 13,887 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,521 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,547 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |

## People named Matthäus

- Matthäus Hetzenauer, Austrian sniper (1924–2004)
- Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect
- Matthäus Schiner, Catholic cardinal (1465-1522)
- Matthäus Seutter, German cartographer
- Matthäus Aurogallus, German hebraist and historian (ca 1490-1543)
- Matthäus Zell, German Lutheran pastor
- Matthäus Günther, German artist (1705-1788)
- Matthäus Taferner, association football player
- Joseph Matthäus Aigner, Austrian painter (1818–1886)
- Matthäus Prätorius, German historian
- Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, astronomer and botanist (1724-1784)
- Mathes Roriczer, German Medieval Master Mason

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.