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The MATTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 653 33054 0 2
United States (1880 census) 194 19754 0 4
Change since 1880 +459 -13300 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 62 21270 0 4
United Kingdom 344 11629 0.001 7
Top States for MATTS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 69 33687 0.000 2
Michigan 64 20842 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 57 26148 0.000 5
New Jersey 53 19641 0.001 6
Ohio 48 26585 0.000 4
Top States for MATTS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 18 13103 0.001 9
Wisconsin 44 20879 0.001 8
Michigan 64 20842 0.001 6
New Jersey 53 19641 0.001 6
Connecticut 17 28990 0.000 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MATTS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MATTS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MATTS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MATTS by picking someone at random in Nevada than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MATTS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MATTS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MATTS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MATTS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 562 86.06
Black/African American 59 9.04
White (Hispanic) 16 2.45
Mixed Race 10 1.53
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MATTS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MATTS in historical publications

MATTS. A derivative of Matthew.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MATTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MATTS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MATTS

The following words are slight variants of MATTS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.