Polish and Czech: nickname from Latin materna, feminine form
of the adjective maternus ‘maternal’. It may also be from a
this word as a personal name (see Mattern). AC.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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