Materna Family History
Materna Name Meaning
Polish and Czech: apparently a nickname from Latin materna feminine form of the adjective maternus ‘maternal’. It may also be from this Latin word used as a personal name (see Mattern ). Czech: probably in some cases at least an altered form under the influence of the Latin word materna (see 1 above) of the personal name Matěj; see Matthew .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022