About the Mato Surname

Mato is best understood together with Matos: both are Portuguese spellings of a single family name.

Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Without the “s” of Matos, Mato is a simpler written form of the same name.

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