Matos

At the 2020 census, 22,885 Americans bore the surname Matos — 1,520th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,885
Rank: 1,520th
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

As a Spanish and Galician surname, from the plural of mato (“brushwood”). See Mato. This is also found in Portuguese through placenames from the same noun. Compare De Matos.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Matos described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 81.4%
White, not Hispanic 15.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Matos

Huber Matos (1918–2014)Cuban revolutionary
Antun Gustav Matoš (1873–1914)Croatian writer
Andre Matos (1971–2019)Brazilian musician
Ryder Matos (born 1993)Brazilian footballer
Ángel Matos (born 1976)Taekwondo practitioner
Rafael Matos (born 1996)Brazilian tennis player
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897–1948)Uruguayan musician, pianist, journalist, and tango composer
Jeorá Matos Ferreira (born 1964)Brazilian association football player

People named Matos with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Matos

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.