Matero
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mateɾo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Matero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably from a diminutive form of Matti.
- FIFinland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 182K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,300 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Probably from a diminutive form of Matti.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matero 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 1,300 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Matero | 3 |
| US United States | 243 | 1 in 1.4M | 247 | Matero | 34 |
| SE Sweden | 56 | 1 in 182K | 56 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | Matero | 17 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Matero | 6 |
| HN Honduras | — | — | — | Matero | 2 |
1,300 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Matero 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 Spanish, flowerpot
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #1,490 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 593 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 247 | #73,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 244 | #83,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 243 | #78,567 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 56 | #11,577 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Matero mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from a diminutive form of Matti. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Matero?
- In Swahili /mateɾo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Matero have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Matero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matero.
- Where is Matero most common?
- Matero is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matero?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,300 people named Matero, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Matero?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/materoThe 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, “Matero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.