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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Polish : from a pet form of the personal name Matěj (see Matthew).
  • Czech : nickname from the vocabulary word matula ‘butterfly’.
  • Polish and Ukrainian : nickname from matula ‘little mother’, ‘mummy’, a pet form of matka ‘mother’.

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