Màtos
surname · Latin script
Màtos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: widespread habitational name from any of numerous places in Portugal named Matos, from mata ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’. Màtos is also written მათოს in Georgian.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 240(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 250
- BRBrazil≈1 in 450
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #800 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 240 (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Màtos in other scripts: Georgian
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Matos in BR Brazil, US United States, DO Dominican Republic and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)widespread habitational name from any of numerous places in Portugal named Matos, from mata ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Màtos is found
(measured from records)Màtos counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #72 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 326 | Matos | 222 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #32 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 240 | — | Matos | 89 |
| PT Portugal | #49 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 249 | — | Matos | 170 |
| AO Angola | #61 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 947 | — | Matos | 47 |
| US United States | — | 21,258 | 1 in 16K | 23K | Matos | 350 |
| CU Cuba | #15 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Matos | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Màtos mean, and where does it come from?
- widespread habitational name from any of numerous places in Portugal named Matos, from mata ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Màtos?
- Mondonomo estimates about 473 thousand people named Màtos in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matos. After it come Dominican Republic, Portugal, Angola and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Màtos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,258 people named Màtos in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Màtos compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Màtos is the 72nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Màtos” — ranked 8294th in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.