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* As a Spanish and Galician surname, from the plural of mato (“brushwood”). See Mato. This is also found in Portuguese through placenames from the same noun. Compare De Matos. * As a Hungarian surname, variant of Matus. * As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovak surname Matoš, Máťoš, from a pet form of derivations of the name Matthaeus, see Matthew. This is also found in Slovene.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.