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The MATTHIAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,335 12233 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 692 7431 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1643 -4802 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 116 12442 0.001 7
United Kingdom 713 6828 0.002 16
Top States for MATTHIAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 229 10819 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 201 7255 0.002 16
Wisconsin 195 3788 0.004 36
Iowa 165 2249 0.006 56
Illinois 153 8269 0.001 12
Top States for MATTHIAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 165 2249 0.006 56
Wisconsin 195 3788 0.004 36
Alaska 17 5584 0.003 27
Delaware 16 8284 0.002 20
Kansas 49 6467 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of MATTHIAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MATTHIAS 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 MATTHIAS 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 MATTHIAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 304 13.02
Mixed Race 55 2.36
White (Hispanic) 33 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 27 1.16
Asian/Pacific 14 0.6
White (Caucasian) 1,902 81.46

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

Meaning of MATTHIAS in historical publications

MATTHIAS. The Christian name.

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 MATTHIAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATTHIAS.

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 MATTHIAS

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