Matus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Czech (Moravian) and Slovak (Matus); Polish; Croatian (Slavonia, Matus); and Slovenian (eastern Slovenia, Matus): from Slavic forms of the Latin personal name Matthaeus (see Matthew)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Matus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3K
- ARArgentina1 in 17K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Czech (Moravian) and Slovak (Matus); Polish; Croatian (Slavonia, Matus); and Slovenian (eastern Slovenia, Matus): from Slavic forms of the Latin personal name Matthaeus (see Matthew).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #235 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1 | Matus | 107 |
| NI Nicaragua | #171 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Matus | 30 |
| US United States | — | 3,952 | 1 in 84K | 4K | Matus | 240 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,635 | 1 in 17K | 2.6K | Matus | 58 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Matus | 20 |
| CR Costa Rica | #423 | 449 | 1 in 11K | 449 | Matus | 18 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 199 | 1 in 27K | 199 | — | — |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Matus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a pet form of Mate, Hungarian form of Matthew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Lithuanian, accusative plural of mãtas (“measure”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, accusative plural of mats (“hair”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, funeral
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)
- Juan Matusb. 1890literary character
- Dina Matusb. 1899PLPolish painter
- Moshe Matusb. 1908ILIsraeli illustrator
- Oscar Matusb. 1927ARArgentinian composer and guitarist (1935-1991)
- Carlos Matusb. 1931CLChilean economist (1931-1998)
- Fabián Matusb. 1958ARArgentine music producer, writer and artist representative (1958-2019)
- Alejandra Matusb. 1966CLChilean journalist and author
- Dominik Matusb. 1992CZCzech art historian, conservator, Wikipedian
- Axel Matusb. 1998MXMexican racing driver
- Michael MatusGBBritish actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,215 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.6K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 449 | #669 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Matus mean, and where does it come from?
- Czech (Moravian) and Slovak (Matus); Polish; Croatian (Slavonia, Matus); and Slovenian (eastern Slovenia, Matus): from Slavic forms of the Latin personal name Matthaeus (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Matus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Matus in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matus.
- How common is the name Matus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,952 people named Matus in 2010, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Matus compared with other names?
- In Chile, Matus is the 235th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matusThe 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, “Matus” — the 235th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.