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The MATHIAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,286 3939 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 2,447 2492 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +5839 -1447 -0.002 -18
Other Countries
Australia 199 7597 0.001 12
United Kingdom 2,016 2939 0.004 44
Top States for MATHIAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,054 1247 0.009 93
Pennsylvania 644 2317 0.005 52
California 591 4784 0.002 17
Illinois 519 2430 0.004 42
Florida 450 4453 0.003 28
Top States for MATHIAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,054 1247 0.009 93
West Virginia 148 1715 0.008 82
Maryland 380 1605 0.007 72
North Dakota 46 2242 0.007 72
South Carolina 248 2406 0.006 62

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MATHIAS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MATHIAS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MATHIAS in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MATHIAS by picking someone at random in Ohio than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MATHIAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MATHIAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MATHIAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MATHIAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 328 3.96
Asian/Pacific 222 2.68
White (Hispanic) 153 1.85
Mixed Race 123 1.48
Native American/Alaskan 77 0.93
White (Caucasian) 7,383 89.1

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MATHIAS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MATHIAS in historical publications

MATHIAS. MATTHIE

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MATHIAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATHIAS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MATHIAS

The following words are slight variants of MATHIAS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.