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Matthijs - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Matthijs

[ syll. mat-(t)hij(s), ma-tthi-js ] The boy name Matthijs is pronounced as MAE-THIYJHZ KEY. Matthijs is mainly used in Dutch and its language of origin is Hebrew. Matthijs is a form of the English name Matthew. Forms of the name include the Dutch short form Thijs and the Dutch spelling variant Mathijs.

Matthijs is not popular as a baby boy name. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the family of boy names directly related to Matthijs, the English Matthew was the most widely used.

Baby names that sound like Matthijs include the Dutch Mathijs, 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, the Scandinavian Mathies, the French and German Mathis, the Polish Matjasz, the German Mattäus, the Scandinavian Matteus, the German Matthaeus, the German Matthaus, the German Matthäus, the Dutch and German Mattheus, and the Czech Matus.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Matthijs: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; TH as in "theta (TH.EY.T.AH)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; Z as in "zee (Z.IY)"


 
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