Matthias

Where Matthias comes from

From Latin Matthias.
— Wiktionary's entry for Matthias
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1804
    Matthias Jacob Schleiden born
    German botanist and philosopher
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1994
    Matthias Ginter born
    German association football player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #372
    854 babies named Matthias — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, derived from the same source as Matthew.
Namesakes
  • Matthias Jacob Schleiden · German botanist and philosopher, 1804–1881
  • Matthias Ginter · German association football player, born 1994
  • Matthias Sammer · German association football player, coach and executive, born 1967
  • Matthias Grünewald · German Renaissance painter, 1480–1528
  • Matthias Claudius · German poet, 1740–1815

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.