Matola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A suburb of Maputo, Mozambique
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈtoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 90Kas Матола(inferred from the name graph)
- MWMalawi≈1 in 3.8K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 6.8K
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 Matola itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malawi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Матола in UA Ukraine.
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)
A suburb of Maputo, Mozambique.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matola 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Matola | 17 |
| MW Malawi | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Matola | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Matola | 11 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Матола | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 129K | listed | Matola | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 331 | 1 in 640K | 331 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 65 | 1 in 86K | 65 | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Matola 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 Latvian, pilsēta Mozambikā, Maputu provinces administratīvais centrs, 675000 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Sharon Matolab. 1954USBelizean environmentalist
- James Matolab. 1977ZWZimbabwean footballer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 331 | #24,358 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #18,108 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Matola mean, and where does it come from?
- A suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Matola?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈtoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Matola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Matola in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matola.
- How common is the name Matola?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 331 people named Matola, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Matola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matolaThe 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, “Matola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.