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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese : widespread habitational name from any of numerous places in Portugal named Matos, from mata ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’.
  • Spanish : topographic name, from the plural of Mato.
  • Hungarian : variant of Matus.

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