Mattison
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Respelling of Swedish Mattisson, a patronymic from the personal name Mattis, a Swedish form of Matthew
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmætɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mattison is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 44K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K
- CACanada≈1 in 65K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
7,485 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
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(measured from records)
Respelling of Swedish Mattisson, a patronymic from the personal name Mattis, a Swedish form of Matthew.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mattison 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 | — | 7,485 | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Mattison | 354 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mattison | 119 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Mattison | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Mattison | 72 |
| LR Liberia | #181 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mattison | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mattison | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Mattison | 5 |
7,485 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. 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)
Mattison 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.
patronymic from a pet form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Alice Mattisonb. 1942USAmerican writer
- Paul Mattisonb. 1973GBEnglish footballer (born 1973)
- Landy Mattisonb. 1983USAmerican soccer player
- Bryan Mattisonb. 1984USplayer of American football
- Kevin Mattisonb. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- Alexander Mattisonb. 1998USAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Chris MattisonGBwildlife photographer
- Siobhán MattisonUSAmerican anthropologist
- Broadus MattisonAmerican actor
- Michael Mattisonactor
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.5K | #4,737 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.1K | #4,814 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.1K | #4,588 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Mattison mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of Swedish Mattisson, a patronymic from the personal name Mattis, a Swedish form of Matthew. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mattison?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmætɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mattison have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.5 thousand people named Mattison, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mattison.
- How common is the name Mattison?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,485 people named Mattison in 2010, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Mattison compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Mattison is the 181st most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattisonThe 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, “Mattison” — the 181st most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.