Mátai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Mátai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 157 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 110K
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
157 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mátai is found
(measured from records)Mátai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 157 | 1 in 110K | 157 | — | — |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 343 | — | 7 |
| HU Hungary | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Mátai | 18 |
| IN India | 91 | 1 in 15M | 91 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 57 | 1 in 3.7M | 57 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
157 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mária D. Mátaib. 1945HUHungarian linguist (1945–2020)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mátai?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 157 people named Mátai, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Hungary, India and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mátai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mátai is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mátai?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 157 people named Mátai in 2007, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mátai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1taiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mátai” — ranked 12967th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.