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matters Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Matter.
  2. 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.
  3. Dutch: variant of Matter 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of matters Families in the US in 1920
Number of matters families
 26-49
 9-25		 1-8
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Roots back to UK Geoff Matters 6
Matters of Prince Edward Island Pat 0
Matters family Tim 0
Matters Family from South Molton, Devon, England williamsbj1 0
Matters of Devonshire and Wisconsin R. Ben Madison 1
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Looking for my family upnorthdj 0
matters patriciacunningham61 0
Harvey Matters indianastaffing 0
MATTERS in Michigan from England Janice_Rhodes 0
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