Matalón
surname · Latin script
Matalón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Spanish (Matalon) and Jewish (Sephardic); nickname from matalon ‘worn-out horse’, a derivative of matar ‘to flog (an animal)’, ‘flog to death’.
- UYUruguay1 in 178K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 630K
- USUnited States1 in 792K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
420 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Matalon in US United States, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom 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)Spanish (Matalon) and Jewish (Sephardic); nickname from matalon ‘worn-out horse’, a derivative of matar ‘to flog (an animal)’, ‘flog to death’.
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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matalón 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 420 | 1 in 792K | 450 | Matalon | 158 |
| IL Israel | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Matalon | 18 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 626K | 10 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 55 | 1 in 3.8M | 55 | Matalon | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | Matalon | 22 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Matalon | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | Matalon | 5 |
420 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Matalón mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish (Matalon) and Jewish (Sephardic); nickname from matalon ‘worn-out horse’, a derivative of matar ‘to flog (an animal)’, ‘flog to death’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Matalón have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 420 people named Matalón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matalon.
- How common is the name Matalón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 420 people named Matalón in 2010, about 1 in 792 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matal%C3%B3nThe 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, “Matalón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.