Given name & surname
Matos
“brushwood”
Matos is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English and Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a Spanish and Galician surname, Matos goes back to a word meaning “brushwood.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Matos has more than one origin: as a Spanish and Galician surname, it comes from Portuguese; as a Serbo-Croatian and Slovak surname Matoš, it comes from Slovene.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Matos as a surname is an affectionate form of MATTHAEUS.
Matos’s family of names
In English usage, Matos as a surname is an affectionate form of MATTHAEUS. In English usage, Matos as a surname has a related form in MATTOS. In English usage, Matos as a surname has a related form in MATTOS.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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