Mátyás as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mátyás

What is the meaning of the name Mátyás ?

The baby name Mátyás is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced [ˈmaːcaːʃ].

Mátyás is Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latin in Origin.

Mátyás is the Hungarian form of Matthias, transmitted through medieval church Latin Matthias from Greek Matthías and ultimately Biblical Hebrew Mattityahu. The Hebrew name is built from mattat, a gift, and the divine element Yahu, a shortened form of the Tetragrammaton; its literal sense is gift of Yahweh. Hungarian spelling marks long á vowels, while ty represents a single palatal stop, reflected in the pronunciation [ˈmaːcaːʃ].

In Hungary the name belongs to the Matthias tradition rather than to Máté, the Hungarian Matthew. Its central historical association is King Mátyás Corvinus, Matthias I of Hungary, whose fifteenth-century court made the name especially visible in national memory; Matthias II later carried it in the Habsburg period. Cognate forms include Matyáš in Czech and Slovak, Matias in Spanish and Portuguese, and Matija in South Slavic languages. Recent Hungarian statistics place Mátyás within regular national use, while it remains uncommon in English-speaking countries.