# Matar (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/matar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 782 |
| US rank (2010) | 30,013 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 394,815 people |
| Change since 2000 | +23% (636 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Spanish and Portuguese habitational surname based on several places in the Iberian peninsula, ultimately from mata (“forest, woods”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Matar in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 73% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 18% |
| Two or more races | 6.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Matar in the United States.

## People named Matar

- Hisham Matar, American writer

## Similar surnames

Matter, Mattera, Mateer, Matera, Mather, Mathur, Meador, Madera, Mader, Motter, Madore, Metoyer.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.