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 [ 3 syll. mat-(t)hias, ma-tthi-as ] The boy name Matthias is pronounced as MahTHAYahS KEY. Matthias is used mostly in English and German. Its language of origin is Hebrew. The name was borne in the Old Testament of the Bible by several persons, in various forms such as Mattaniah, Mattathah, Mattathias, and Mattithiah. The name Matthias is used in the Authorized Version of the Bible to distinguish the disciple chosen to replace Judas Iscariot from the evangelist and apostle Matthew, also the author of the first Gospel. The name saw a moderate increase in use among English Puritans in the 17th century. Matthias is a variant form (English and German) of the English name Matthew. The spelling variants Mathias (English, German, and Scandinavian), Matias (English, Finnish, German, Portuguese, and Spanish), and Mattias (English, German, and Scandinavian) are forms of Matthias. See also the related forms, the German Jahwe and the English Macy. Matthias is a somewhat popular baby boy name. The name has been increasing in popularity since the 2000s; prior to that, it was of infrequent use only. At the modest height of its usage in 2008, 0.013% of baby boys were named Matthias. It was #772 in rank then. Within all boy names in its family, Matthias was the 3rd most popular after the English Matthew and the English, German, and Scandinavian Mathias in 2008. It was 61 times more commonly used than Matthias in that year. Baby names that sound like Matthias include the English, German, and Scandinavian Mathias, the Hungarian and Slavic Matija, the Siouan Matoskah, the Greek Matthaios, the Japanese Mitsuaki, the Japanese Mitsuo, the Indian Mohandas, the English Montagu, the English Montague, the name Motega, the English Maddox, the Welsh Madoc, the Welsh Madog, the Polish Mandek, the Lithuanian Matas, the Czech Matek, the Portuguese Mateus, the Polish Mateusz, the German Mathäus, and the Scandinavian Mathies. KEY: Pronunciation for Matthias: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; TH as in "theta (TH.EY.T.AH)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)"   |
