Matton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Mathieu (see Matthew) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Matton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country: 1,064 people, counted by Familienaam.be in 2008.
- BEBelgium1 in 11K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 66K
- NLNetherlands1 in 194K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,064 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of the personal name Mathieu (see Matthew).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Matton is found
(measured from records)Matton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,064 | 1 in 11K | 1.1K | Matton | 40 |
| US United States | 431 | 1 in 772K | 474 | Matton | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | 89 | 1 in 194K | 89 | Matton | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 51 | 1 in 66K | 51 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Matton | 5 |
1,064 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Matton 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.
In French, voir Mathon.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)- Ida Mattonb. 1863SESwedish sculptor (1863–1940)
- Charles Mattonb. 1931FRFrench artist (1931–2008)
- Sylvie Mattonb. 1953FRFrench journalist, actor, writer and screenwriter
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Matton mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Mathieu (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Matton?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Matton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matton. After it come United States, Netherlands, Uruguay and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Matton most common?
- Matton is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matton?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,064 people named Matton in 2008, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Matton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mattonThe 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, “Matton” — ranked 1237th in Belgium (Familienaam.be, 2008). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.