Mato Family History
Mato Name Meaning
Galician Spanish and Portuguese: topographic name from Galician and Spanish mato Portuguese mata ‘brushwood scrub’ or a habitational name from a place called Mato. Compare De Mato . Catalan (Mató): metonymic occupational name for a dairyman from a word meaning ‘cream’ also ‘curds curd cheese’. Hungarian (Mató): from a pet form of the personal name Maté Hungarian form of Matthew . This surname is also found in Slovakia. Slovak (Maťo): from a pet form of the personal names Matej ‘Matthew’ Matúš (see Matus ) and Martin . Albanian: from a short form of the personal name Mateo (see Matthew ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022