Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Matter.
  • English : probably a metonymic occupational name for a mattress maker or seller, from Middle English, Old French materas, or less likely for a maker of crossbow bolts, spears, and lances, from the Middle English homonym materas.
  • Dutch : variant of Matter 2.

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