Matesic
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Matesa, a pet form of Matija or Matej (see Matthew)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɪtsɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matesic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 260K
- CACanada≈1 in 422K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,364 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Matešić in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, GB United Kingdom.
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)
patronymic from the personal name Matesa, a pet form of Matija or Matej (see Matthew).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matesic 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #333 | 1,364 | 1 in 3.1K | 1.4K | Matešić | 40 |
| US United States | — | 370 | 1 in 899K | 400 | Matesic | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Matesic | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Matešić | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 4 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Matešić | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 549K | — | Matesic | 3 |
1,364 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Joe Matesicb. 1929USAmerican football player (1929-2020)
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 400 | #49,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 370 | #55,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 365 | #59,756 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Matesic mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Matesa, a pet form of Matija or Matej (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Matesic?
- A machine transcription gives /meɪtsɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Matesic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Matesic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matešić.
- Where is Matesic most common?
- Matesic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matesic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,364 people named Matesic in 2021, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Matesic compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Matesic is the 333rd most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Matesic?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matesicThe 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, “Matesic” — the 333rd most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.