The Matti surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,179 people carried this name — #22,000 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 250,000 people counted. That is up 39% from 848 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
845 people named Matti live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 145 people named Matti live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 109 people named Matti.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Eure.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
647 people named Matti is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Matti,
with a public archive behind them.
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David Gottlieb Matti 1804–1851
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Jo Matti 1926–2018 · politician
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Marianne Matti 1930–2025 · actor
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Jean-Jacques Matti 1945– · artist
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Jonathan C. Matti 1947– · geologist
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Nathalie Matti 1953– · actor
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Matti.
- Mattes 3,007 · U.S. census
- Matteucci 780 · U.S. census
- Matthews 131,303 · U.S. census
- Matthey 239 · U.S. census
- Matthieu 222 · U.S. census
- Matthys 1,009 · U.S. census
- Mattia 2,025 · U.S. census
- Mattio 240 · U.S. census
- Mattioli 1,113 · U.S. census
- Mattioni 112 · U.S. census
- Mattler 106 · U.S. census
- Mattlin 202 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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