Matuš
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ma˦˨t̪uːʂ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matuš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the Mat- stem of Máté + -us (diminutive suffix), from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū), meaning “gift of the Lord”.
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 893(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 25K
- ISIceland1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovakia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 893 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovakia, 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 Matúš in SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia and Matus in ES Spain.
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)
- LatinMatthaeus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜατθαῖοςMatthaîos(measured from records)
- Hebrewמַתִּתְיָהוּmattiṯyāhū(measured from records)
- Slovak Matúšbut(measured from records)
From the Mat- stem of Máté + -us (diminutive suffix), from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū), meaning “gift of the Lord”. Another possibility is from Slovak Matúš but the geographical occurrences do not support this assumption.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matuš 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.
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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Juan Matusb. 1890literary character
- Dina Matusb. 1899PLPolish painter
- Moshe Matusb. 1908ILIsraeli illustrator
- Oscar Matusb. 1927ARArgentinian composer and guitarist (1935-1991)
- Fabián Matusb. 1958ARArgentine music producer, writer and artist representative (1958-2019)
- Alejandra Matusb. 1966CLChilean journalist and author
- Dominik Matusb. 1992CZCzech art historian, conservator, Wikipedian
- Radim Matušb. 1993CZCzech ice hockey player
- Axel Matusb. 1998MXMexican racing driver
- Michael MatusGBBritish actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 248 | #6,763 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 199 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Matuš mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Mat- stem of Máté + -us (diminutive suffix), from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū), meaning “gift of the Lord”. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Matuš?
- A machine transcription gives /ma˦˨t̪uːʂ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Matuš have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Matuš in Slovakia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matúš.
- How common is the name Matuš?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 428 people named Matuš, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Matuš compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Matuš is the 49th most common given name of 9,943 given names 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, “Matuš” — the 49th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.