Mató
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular preterite indicative of matar
Mató is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 22K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 2.5K
- ESSpain1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
9,457 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mato in BR Brazil, ES Spain, UY Uruguay.
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)third-person singular preterite indicative of matar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mató 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 9,457 | 1 in 22K | 9.5K | Mato | 59 |
| ES Spain | 4,807 | 1 in 10K | 4.8K | Mato | 116 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,336 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.3K | Mato | 37 |
| AR Argentina | 1,313 | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | — | 63 |
| US United States | 720 | 1 in 462K | 790 | — | 92 |
| CH Switzerland | 95 | 1 in 88K | 95 | — | 9 |
9,457 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); 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)Mató is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, third-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of matar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, cottage cheese, curd cheese
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edit Matób. 1947HUHungarian ice dancer (1947–2020)
- Emili Mató i PalósESSpanish politician
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Mató mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular preterite indicative of matar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mató have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.5 thousand people named Mató, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mato.
- Where is Mató most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mató is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mató?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,457 people named Mató, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mató?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mat%C3%B3The 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, “Mató”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.