How common is the surname Matte?

2,819 people in the United States had the surname Matte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. It ranked 11,216th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Matte?

In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Matte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Matte getting more or less common?

More common. 2,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,819 in 2010, up 23%.

The surname Matte

A surname, carried by 2,819 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Matte is more common than 93.1% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,819 people named Matte in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,290.

#11,216

rank among US surnames

2,819

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+23.1%

change since 2000 (was #12,430)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,209	Noone	2,820	109,484
#11,216	Dennard	2,819	109,523
#11,223	Yeary	2,818	109,562
#11,225	Wolfgang	2,817	109,601

Who is named Matte

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

88% of people named Matte identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Matte

Matte has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.

Questions

How common is the surname Matte?: 2,819 people in the United States had the surname Matte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. It ranked 11,216th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Matte?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Matte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Matte getting more or less common?: More common. 2,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,819 in 2010, up 23%.