Given name & surname · also Latin
Matus
“gift of the Lord”
Matus is a surname from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Matus goes back to a word meaning “gift of the Lord.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Matus comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος, from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū), built from Hungarian Máté + -us.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Matus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,472 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Matus’s family of names
In English usage, Matus as a surname has a related form in MATOS.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
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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