The Mattes surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,702 people carried this name — #10,829 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 100,000 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
146 people named Mattes live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 96 people named Mattes.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mattes.
- Matteo 1,956 · U.S. census
- Matteoli 103 · U.S. census
- Matteoni 152 · U.S. census
- Matter 2,851 · U.S. census
- Mattera 1,767 · U.S. census
- Mattern 4,427 · U.S. census
- Matteucci 780 · U.S. census
- Matthews 124,839 · U.S. census
- Matthey 281 · U.S. census
- Matthieu 236 · U.S. census
- Matthys 908 · U.S. census
- Matti 848 · U.S. census
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