Given name & surname · also Spanish
Matar
“forest, woods”
Matar is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Matar goes back to a word meaning “forest, woods.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Matar comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Matar’s family of names
In Greek usage, Matar as a surname is a transliteration of Ματάρ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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