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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician : variant of Mato and more particularly Domato, a habitational name for someone from any of the numerous places in Galicia called Mato or O Mato (formerly El Mato), from mato ‘brushwood’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

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