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From the Spanish and Portuguese habitational surname based on several places in the Iberian peninsula, ultimately from mata (“forest, woods”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From the Spanish and Portuguese habitational surname based on several places in the Iberian peninsula, ultimately from mata (“forest, woods”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.