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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Moravian) and Slovak (Matúš); Polish; Croatian (Slavonia, Matuš); and Slovenian (eastern Slovenia, Matuš) : from Slavic forms of the Latin personal name Matthaeus (see Matthew).
  • Hungarian : from a pet form of Máté, Hungarian form of Matthew.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Mates.

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