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mathews Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic from Mathew; a variant spelling of Matthews. In the U.S., this form has absorbed some European cognates such as German Matthäus.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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mathews Family Facts

Distribution of mathews Families in the US in 1920
Number of mathews families
 411-819
 138-410		 1-137
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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