The Mathys surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 610 people carried this name — #35,003 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
3,384 people named Mathys live in Switzerland.
They live in 24 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 618 people named Mathys live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 171 people named Mathys.
28 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mathys.
- Mathiot 130 · U.S. census
- Mathis 51,796 · U.S. census
- Mathon 201 · U.S. census
- Mathurin 935 · U.S. census
- Mathus 402 · U.S. census
- Mathy 420 · U.S. census
- Mati 285 · U.S. census
- Matias 7,295 · U.S. census
- Matic 491 · U.S. census
- Matile 114 · U.S. census
- Matis 1,307 · U.S. census
- Maton 262 · U.S. census
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