Matzén

surname · Latin script

Matzén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Matthaus or Matthias (see Matthew).

  • DKDenmark1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 317K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 330Kfew records

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)

1,048 people, 2010

Record sources
214 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matzen in US United States, DK Denmark, GB United Kingdom and 4 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)

patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Matthaus or Matthias (see Matthew).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Matzén 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 Matzén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0481 in 317K1.1KMatzen214
DK Denmark#6218261 in 7.1K826Matzen60
GH Ghana—≈550 est.≈1 in 63K—Matzen3
GB United Kingdom—≈110 est.≈1 in 608K—Matzen36
MY Malaysia—≈110 est.≈1 in 334K—Matzen9
AU Australia—≈82 est.≈1 in 333K—Matzen23
AI Anguilla#212———Matzen1

1,048 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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Matzén is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Matzen

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Matzen

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Matzén under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Matzén mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Matthaus or Matthias (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Matzén have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Matzén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matzen.
Where is Matzén most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matzén is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Matzén?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,048 people named Matzén in 2010, about 1 in 317 thousand residents.
How common is Matzén compared with other names?
In Anguilla, Matzén is the 212th most common surname of 7,424 surnames 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, “Matzén” — the 212th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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