Matâ
loc · Latin script
Matâ is a name 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. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese mata, possibly from Late Latin matta (“reed mat”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 308(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 640
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K
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 Matâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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)
- Record sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- 1 in 308 (inferred from the name graph)
510,309 named Mota
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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.
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)- Old Galician-Portuguesemata(measured from records)
- Late Latinmatta“reed mat”(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese mata, possibly from Late Latin matta (“reed mat”).
Cited for this meaning 10
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matâ 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 | — | 48,120 | 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 | 20,612 | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Mata | 178 |
| CR Costa Rica | #80 | 16,568 | 1 in 308 | 17K | Mata | 97 |
| 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); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Matâ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese mata, possibly from Late Latin matta (“reed mat”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 8 other sources.
- In which country does Matâ have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 510 thousand people named Mota, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Matâ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matâ is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 308 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Matâ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 48,120 people named Matâ in 2010, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Matâ compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Matâ is the 212th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mat%C3%A2The 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, “Matâ” — the 212th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.