Matta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu and Sikh name of unknown meaning, found among people from Sind, Pakistan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mat̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 80th most common surname.
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 151K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 308as Mata
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 Matta 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #896 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
510,309 named Mota
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mata in BR Brazil, US United States, VE Venezuela and 5 more and Mati in IN India.
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)
Hindu and Sikh name of unknown meaning, found among people from Sind, Pakistan.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #212 | 510,309as Mota | 1 in 415 | 510K | Mata | 157 |
| US United States | — | 48,120as Mata | 1 in 6.9K | 48K | Mata | 389 |
| VE Venezuela | #114 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | — | Mata | 109 |
| PH Philippines | #386 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Mata | 75 |
| ES Spain | #184 | 20,612as Mata | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Mata | 178 |
| CR Costa Rica | #80 | 16,568as Mata | 1 in 308 | 17K | Mata | 97 |
| IN India | — | 8,800 | 1 in 151K | 8.8K | Mati | 102 |
| PE Peru | #493 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Matta | 59 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #165 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Mata | 46 |
| SV El Salvador | #187 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mata | 51 |
510,309 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling mota. 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Matta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, A hunter who discovered four marvellous gems near Peḷavāpikagāma, seven leagues to the north of Anurādhapura. He reported his discovery to Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, and the gems were used for the Maha Thūpa.’
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In pi, A householder in the Vihāravāpi village near the Tulā¬ dhāra Mountain; he was the father of LabhiyaVasabha.’
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In pi, One of the seven children of Paṇḍuvāsudeva and Bhad¬ dakaccānā.’
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
from the personal name Matus, Slovak form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The false start of a bout due to mutual misunderstanding.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Roberto Mattab. 1911CLChilean painter (1911-2002)
- Gordon Matta-Clarkb. 1943USAmerican artist (1943–1978)
- Paloma Mattab. 1945FRFrench actor and midwife (1945–2017)
- Juan Matta-Ballesterosb. 1945HNHonduran drug lord
- Glória Mariab. 1949BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian journalist (1949–2023)
- Federica Mattab. 1955FRFrench painter and sculptor
- Ramuntcho Mattab. 1960FRFrench artist
- Thad Mattab. 1967USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Anis Mattab. 1968IDIndonesian politician
- Youssef Abedallah Mattab. 1968ILMelkite Greek Catholic archbishop
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 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 19K | #62 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.2K | #1,401 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 8.8K | #1,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,284 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,281 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 367 | #10,255 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 367 | #10,235 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 14 | #4,441 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Matta mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu and Sikh name of unknown meaning, found among people from Sind, Pakistan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Matta?
- A machine transcription gives /mat̪a/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Matta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 510 thousand people named Mota, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Matta?
- In India, the national register counted 8,800 people named Matta, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.
- How common is Matta compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Matta is the 212th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattaThe 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, “Matta” — the 212th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.