Mature
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from maturo ‘mature’, ‘middle aged’, possibly denoting someone who was mature beyond his years
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2000
/mətʃʊə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mature is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 566K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 3.2M
- BRBrazil1 in 6M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 566K (inferred from the name graph)
35 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname from maturo ‘mature’, ‘middle aged’, possibly denoting someone who was mature beyond his years.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mature 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 | 35 | 1 in 6M | 35 | Mature | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 14 | 1 in 3.2M | 14 | Mature | 11 |
| CR Costa Rica | 9 | 1 in 566K | 9 | Mature | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | — | — | — | Mature | 5 |
| US United States | — | — | 107 | Mature | 9 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Mature | 5 |
35 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)Mature 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 English, Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of mātūrus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine plural of maturo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of maturar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, mature (ripe)
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)- Victor Matureb. 1913USAmerican actor (1913–1999)
- Mari Maturepolitician
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 107 | #142,819 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #134,170 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 14 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9 | #5,971 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mature mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from maturo ‘mature’, ‘middle aged’, possibly denoting someone who was mature beyond his years. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mature?
- A machine transcription gives /mətʃʊə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mature have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 35 people named Mature, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mature.
- Where is Mature most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mature is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 566 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mature?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 35 people named Mature, about 1 in 6.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matureThe 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, “Mature”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.