Matías
Fewer than 150 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Spanish form with Hebrew roots, from a name that means "gift of god".
Matías Pronunciation
Matías is pronounced MAHT-íahs (/ˈmatías/).
What Matías means
Where Matías comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Matías traces back to the Hebrew Mattityahu, which breaks into "mattath," a gift, and "Yah," a name for God. Gift of God. The Greeks reshaped it into Matthias, and Spanish speakers smoothed it further into Matías, with the stress falling on the accented í.
For centuries the name traveled with the apostle Matthias, chosen by lot to replace Judas among the twelve. That biblical footing gave it standing across Catholic Europe and, later, across Latin America, where Matías became one of the most registered boys' names in Argentina and Chile.
The Hebrew root does the real work. A child named Matías carries the plain sense of dar boga, a gift of God, with no diminutive to soften it. There is no gentler side form, no cross-gender twin. The name stands as itself.
In a Warsaw class register, Matías would sit slightly apart, the accent marking a Spanish line in a Polish room. The meaning needs no translation once you know the parts: gift, and God.
How many people are named Matías
1 in 151391 men in Poland is named Matías. 141 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2761 among male names.
Matías as a middle name
Matías is a first name for 141 men in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 74/26 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1082nd, between Lloyd (49) and Nahuel (49).
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#1080 Kleofas49
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#1081 Lloyd49
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#1082 Matías49
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#1083 Nahuel49
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#1084 Olek49