Matatov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mətatəf/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from мататов
Matatov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Matatov is also written מטטוב in Hebrew and Мататов in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- ILIsrael1 in 12Kas מטטוב
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matatov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
720 named מטטוב, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Matatov in other scripts: Hebrew and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled מטטוב in IL Israel, AZ Azerbaijan and Мататов in RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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.
How to pronounce Matatov
- Russian:/mətatəf/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Matatov is found
(measured from records)Matatov 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 720as מטטוב | 1 in 12K | 720 | מטטוב | 21 |
| US United States | 307 | 1 in 1.1M | 307 | Matatov | 84 |
| RU Russia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Мататов | 68 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Matatov | 1 |
| BY Belarus | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Мататов | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 344K | — | מטטוב | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Matatov | 2 |
720 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)- Bikel Matatovab. 1928RUnot in their usual namea Soviet actress of the Judeo-Tat Theatre (1928–2013)
- Rinat Matatovb. 1981ILIsraeli actress
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Matatov?
- In Russian /mətatəf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Matatov?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 720 people named מטטוב, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Russia, Jamaica and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Matatov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 307 people named Matatov in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Matatov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matatovThe 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, “Matatov” — ranked 1895th in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.