Matat
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Matat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 210Kas Матат(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
- PLPoland1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 named Матат, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Матат in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Матат | 26 |
| BY Belarus | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Матат | 4 |
| RU Russia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Матат | 46 |
| PL Poland | 29 | 1 in 1.3M | 19 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18M | listed | — | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Matat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, \V e n e, a kind of climbing plant or creeper. pr,1167Ji022
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Hungarian, to fumble, rummage, feel around
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of matta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, past participle of matar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, supine of mata
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Matat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 209 people named Матат in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Matat most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matat is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Matat?
- In Poland, the national register counted 29 people named Matat in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Matat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matatThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Matat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.