How common is the surname Matejka?

1,038 people in the United States had the surname Matejka in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,443 Americans. It ranked 24,201st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Matejka?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Matejka identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Matejka getting more or less common?

More common. 950 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,038 in 2010, up 9.3%.

The surname Matejka

A Czech surname, carried by 1,038 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Matejka is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

Czech origin

Borrowed from Czech Matějka and Slovak Matejka.

One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,038 people named Matejka in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 297,443 Americans. That is up 9.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 950.

#24,201

rank among US surnames

1,038

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+9.3%

change since 2000 (was #24,642)

Who is named Matejka

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

96% of people named Matejka identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Matejka

Matejka has the Soundex code M320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M320.

Other Czech surnames

All 96 Czech surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Matejka come from?: Borrowed from Czech Matějka and Slovak Matejka.
How common is the surname Matejka?: 1,038 people in the United States had the surname Matejka in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,443 Americans. It ranked 24,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Matejka?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Matejka identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Matejka getting more or less common?: More common. 950 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,038 in 2010, up 9.3%.