Mata Family History
Mata Name Meaning
Portuguese and Spanish: habitational name from any of numerous
places in Portugal and Spain named Mata, from mata ‘wood’,
‘forest’.Catalan: topographic name from mata ‘scrub’.Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal name Máté
(see Matthew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mata
Name Distribution of Mata Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mata families
 94 - 186  32 - 93 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mata families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Mata last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mata census records
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Mata Family Origin
Mata Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Mata
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Mata Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Mata census records
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Mata Civil War Service Records
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