What We Know About the Mates Surname

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Meaning of the name

Search old registers for Mates and you will soon meet Matthes too. Its meaning, shared with Matthes, is “Gift of God”.

Mates is listed among the recognised spellings of Matthes. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Related forms: Mathes, Mattes and Mattheus. In the 2010 US Census, 558 Americans gave Mates as their last name (rank 39,419). In the Spanish register, Mates appears 403 times as a first surname and 405 times as a second one. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Mateos and Matos.

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