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Thijs

“given by JHWH”

masculineLatin script

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Dutch

Origin: Not established
3 language contexts: Spanish Dutch Danish
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Thijs

Thijs is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Dutch and Danish. It is a form of Matthijs, for which Dutch Wikipedia gives the meaning “given by JHWH”.

Meaning in the sources

Not established

Meaning: “given by JHWH”

No etymology text in the cited sources.

Sources for this account (8)

Wikidata Q19793959CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (nl): MathijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (nl): Thijs (voornaam)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Thijs is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Thijs’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2024: 5 boys (rank 12349).

Explore United States

4 of 10 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Thijs

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 2; births; Rank #1,916
Peak year: 2011; 6 births

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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Thijs in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	1	1,148	observed
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	1	1,241	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	1	1,331	observed
2006	2	1,149	observed
2007	1	1,407	observed
2008	1	1,473	observed
2009	2	1,267	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	6	865	observed
2012	2	1,386	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	1	1,677	observed
2015	1	1,742	observed
2016	2	1,526	observed
2017	1	1,830	observed
2018	2	1,563	observed
2019	2	1,605	observed
2020	3	1,391	observed
2021	1	1,942	observed
2022	1	1,890	observed
2023	2	1,619	observed
2024	1	1,925	observed
2025	2	1,916	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Thijs” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

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04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Thijs Dallinga
born 2000
Dutch association football player
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Thijs van Leer
born 1948
Dutch musician
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Thijs with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q19793959CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (nl): MathijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (nl): Thijs (voornaam)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Thijs.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Thijs

Thijs is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Dutch and Danish. It is a form of Matthijs, for which Dutch Wikipedia gives the meaning “given by JHWH”.

Meaning in the sources

Not established

Meaning: “given by JHWH”

No etymology text in the cited sources.

Sources for this account (8)

Wikidata Q19793959CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (nl): MathijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (nl): Thijs (voornaam)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Thijs is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Thijs’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2024: 5 boys (rank 12349).

Explore United States

4 of 10 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Thijs

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 2; births; Rank #1,916
Peak year: 2011; 6 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Thijs in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	1	1,148	observed
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	1	1,241	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	1	1,331	observed
2006	2	1,149	observed
2007	1	1,407	observed
2008	1	1,473	observed
2009	2	1,267	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	6	865	observed
2012	2	1,386	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	1	1,677	observed
2015	1	1,742	observed
2016	2	1,526	observed
2017	1	1,830	observed
2018	2	1,563	observed
2019	2	1,605	observed
2020	3	1,391	observed
2021	1	1,942	observed
2022	1	1,890	observed
2023	2	1,619	observed
2024	1	1,925	observed
2025	2	1,916	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q19793959CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: ThijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (nl): MathijsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (nl): Thijs (voornaam)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Thijs.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Thijs

About Thijs

Meaning in the sources

Where Thijs is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers

Thijs Dallinga

Thijs van Leer

Tijs

Matt

Matthijs

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Thijs

About Thijs

Meaning in the sources

Where Thijs is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers

Thijs Dallinga

Thijs van Leer

Tijs

Matt

Matthijs

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Thijs

Meaning in the sources

Where Thijs is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers

Thijs Dallinga

Thijs van Leer

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Tijs

Matt

Matthijs

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Thijs

Meaning in the sources

Where Thijs is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers

Thijs Dallinga

Thijs van Leer

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Tijs

Matt

Matthijs

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page