Matoš

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Matoš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: widespread habitational name from any of numerous places in Portugal named Matos, from mata ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 8.5K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 7K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matoš 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

107,631 named Mattos

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MatošLatin(measured from records)
МатосCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matos in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland.

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’.

Sources 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matoš 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.

Where Matoš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil107,631as Mattos1 in 2K108K——
US United States21,2581 in 16K23KMatos23
ES Spain7,1641 in 7K7.2KMatos9
UY Uruguay3,434as Mattos1 in 9863.4K——
AR Argentina3,1411 in 14K3.1K—1
CH Switzerland1,0821 in 7.8K1.1KMatos2
HR Croatia5001 in 8.5K500Matoš28

107,631 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Matoš is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia, Peru

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Matos, Máťoš, Mâtos, Mäțőš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mato-S, Matos

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Matos, Matòs

  • Portuguese surname54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic

    Also written Matos, Matoş, Mátos, Matós, Mätös

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Matos

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Peru, Spain

    Also written Matos

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Matoš
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021500#1,421
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021467—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Matoš 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,….
In which country does Matoš have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 108 thousand people named Mattos, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Matoš most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matoš is densest in Spain — about 1 in 7.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Matoš?
In the United States, the national register counted 21,258 people named Matoš in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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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, “Matoš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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