Matrass
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A bolt for a crossbow
Matrass is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.4M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 135M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈40 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 bolt for a crossbow.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matrass 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | Matrass | 4 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 135M | Matrass | 3 |
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.
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)
Matrass 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, Matracis
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Matrass mean, and where does it come from?
- A bolt for a crossbow. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Matrass have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 people named Matrass in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matrass.
- How common is the name Matrass?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 people in South Africa have Matrass as their first surname, about 1 in 1.4 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Matrass?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matrassThe 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, “Matrass”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.