Matoso
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bushy, heathy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐtozu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matoso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 16K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 174K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 27K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
13,451 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bushy, heathy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matoso 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.
13,451 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Matoso 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.
lives in deep woods; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Portugal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Tomás Matosob. 1940PTbadminton player
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,075 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 262 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 214 | #15,722 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 214 | #15,698 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 77 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Matoso mean, and where does it come from?
- bushy, heathy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Matoso?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐtozu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Matoso have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Matoso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matoso.
- Where is Matoso most common?
- Matoso is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matoso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 13,451 people named Matoso, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Matoso compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Matoso is the 941st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matosoThe 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, “Matoso” — the 941st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.