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    The surname Matar

    A place surname, carried by 782 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M360

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Matar is more common than 81.5% of them.

    Origin

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

    Matar is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 782 people named Matar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 394,815 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 636.

    #30,013
    rank among US surnames
    782
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23%
    change since 2000 (was #33,782)

    Who is named Matar

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    73% of people named Matar identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 18%
    • Two or more races 6.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Matars

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Hisham Matar
      American writer, born 1970

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Matar

    Matar has the Soundex code M360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M360.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Matar come from?
    From the Spanish and Portuguese habitational surname based on several places in the Iberian peninsula, ultimately from mata (“forest, woods”).
    How common is the surname Matar?
    782 people in the United States had the surname Matar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 394,815 Americans. It ranked 30,013th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Matar?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Matar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Matar?
    Hisham Matar, American writer.
    Where is the surname Matar most common?
    Wikidata records people named Matar in the United States.
    What type of surname is Matar?
    Matar is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Matar getting more or less common?
    More common. 636 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 782 in 2010, up 23%.