Matovu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑtovu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matovu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 161K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 193K
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
124 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matovu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 205 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 53 | 1 in 193K | 53 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | 1 |
124 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Ronie On Dis Oneb. 1994UGnot in their usual nameUgandan record producer
- David MatovuUGUgandan lawyer
- Enock MatovuUGresearcher
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53 | #12,034 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #32,833 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #27,863 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,942 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Matovu?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑtovu/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Matovu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 124 people named Matovu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Matovu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matovu is densest in Norway — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Matovu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Matovu in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Matovu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matovuThe 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, “Matovu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.