Matamoros
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Matamoros meaning ‘killer of Moors’, a title given to Spain’s patron saint, St
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Matamoros is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- COColombia
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from Matamoros meaning ‘killer of Moors’, a title given to Spain’s patron saint, St. James, in the Middle Ages (from matar ‘to kill’ -tmoros ‘Moors’). According to legend, the saint appeared to a 9th-century Spanish king during a battle, and enabled him to massacre 60,000 Saracens.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matamoros counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | 127 | Matamoros | 119 |
| ES Spain | — | 4.2K | Matamoros | 120 |
| CO Colombia | — | 2 | Matamoros | 59 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 10K | — | 73 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 6.8K | — | 41 |
| US United States | — | 4.4K | — | 248 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Matamoros is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, town, Mexico
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Mariano Matamorosb. 1770MXMexican priest
- Manuel Matamorosb. 1834ESLeading Spanish Protestant (1834-1866)
- Miguel Matamorosb. 1894CUCuban musician and composer (1894–1971)
- Marta Matamorosb. 1909PAPanamanian trade unionist (1909–2005)
- Kiko Matamorosb. 1956ESSpanish television personality, born 1956
- Gustavo Matamorosb. 1957VEVenezuelan composer
- Víctor Trujillob. 1961MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor
- Mauricio Castrob. 1981HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Hólger Matamorosb. 1985ECEcuatorian footballer
- Diego MatamorosCACanadian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10K | #160 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 6.8K | #600 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 6.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,342 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.2K | #1,249 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.2K | #1,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,035 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1985 | 143 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 130 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2000 | 129 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 127 | #1,567 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Matamoros come from?
- from Matamoros meaning ‘killer of Moors’, a title given to Spain’s patron saint, St. James, in the Middle Ages (from matar ‘to kill’ -tmoros ‘Moors’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Matamoros mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Matamoros meaning ‘killer of Moors’, a title given to Spain’s patron saint, St.
- In which country does Matamoros have the most bearers?
- Matamoros is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled matamoros.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matamorosThe 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, “Matamoros”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.