Matas

surname · Latin script

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

Matas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Matas, Lithuanian form of Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 30K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 36K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

7,201 people

Sources
141 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name Matas, Lithuanian form of Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matas 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 Matas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#6517,2011 in 6.9K7.2KMatas141
PH Philippines—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 36K—Matas20
HR Croatia—1,1771 in 3.6K1.2K—1
US United States—9341 in 356K934Matas109
AR Argentina—6451 in 71K645Matas54
SK Slovakia—4301 in 13K430——
LT Lithuania—≈230 est.≈1 in 12K14K——
SV El Salvador#799≈220 est.≈1 in 30K—Matas11

7,201 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Registrų centras — top-50 given names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)

Matas is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Mätas, Matás, Maťaš

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Mataš, Mátaš, Mätas, Mataş, Maťaš

  • Czech surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Maťaš, Máťaš, Maťas, Máťáš, Maťáš

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Matás, Mätas, Maťaš

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Mätas, Maťas, Matás

49 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Matas 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 Spanish, from the personal name Mathias, Croatian Matija or Matej (see Matthew).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Iš krikšto vardo Matas

    as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Asturian, second-person singular present subjunctive of matar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of matar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, second-person singular past historic of mater

    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)

175018001850190019502000Niccolò Matas, b. 1798Pelagi de Camps i de Matas, b. 1828Alfredo Matas, b. 1920Raúl Matas, b. 1921David Matas, b. 1943Josep Maria Matas i Babon, b. 1963Jiří Matas, b. 1964Xisco Segura, b. 1979Mike Matas, b. 1986

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 64 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Matas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—7.2K#763
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.2K#763
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.2K#431
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20211.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010934#26,189
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020866#29,143
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000836#27,207
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—645—
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)19958—

Reference works 9

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 Matas mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Matas, Lithuanian form of Latin Matthaeus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Matas?
In the etymology graph, Mathis, Mat and Mateu are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Matas have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Matas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matas.
Where is Matas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matas is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Matas?
In Spain, the national register counted 7,201 people named Matas, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
How common is Matas compared with other names?
In Spain, Matas is the 651st most common surname of 395,154 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, “Matas” — the 651st most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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