Matherne Surname
Approximately 4,490 people bear this surname
Matherne Surname Definition:
Probably all the Matherne families living within the state today can trace ancestry to a single progenitor-Johann Adam Materne, an Alsatian of German heritage, native of the town of Rosenheim, Upper Alsace, now in extreme northeastern France.
Read More About This SurnameMatherne Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4,475 | 1:80,996 | 9,202 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Honduras | 2 | 1:4,408,221 | 7,709 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 72 | 1:697,482 | 45,119 |
Matherne (34) may also be a first name.
Matherne Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Probably all the Matherne families living within the state today can trace ancestry to a single progenitor-Johann Adam Materne, an Alsatian of German heritage, native of the town of Rosenheim, Upper Alsace, now in extreme northeastern France.* Among the earliest settlers in the colony, Johann Adam and his wife Regina Koenig arrived in Louisiana probably in 1721 with other Germans destined for the John Law concession in Arkansas.
Upon failure of that enterprise the Maternes, with most of their Roman Catholic compatriots, were settled by the French authorities in the first German Coast (St. Charles Parish) on the Mississippi above New Orleans.
Of Johann (Jean) Adam Materne's three sons, Jean, Jacques, and Nicolas, the latter appears to have done much more than his brothers to carry on the Matherne name on the lower Mississippi River and elsewhere in Louisiana.
Married to Reine Rommel (Rome) ca. 1759, Nicolas fathered five sons.
Whereas his brothers remained with their smaller families in the German Coast, in 1782 Nicolas sold most of his property in St. Charles Parish and soon thereafter moved upriver to St. James Parish, where he died in 1797.
There, his sons began their families. Sons Jacques (m. ca. 1785 Éléonore Poché), Noël (m. 1789 Charlotte Edelmaire), Pierre (m.
1793 Célestine Fontenot), and Emmanuel (m. ca. 1790 Charlotte Mayer) appear to have remained in St. James.
Son Adam (m. ca. 1788 Marguerite Martin), however, around the turn of the century moved his family to the Attakapas, where his sons Nicolas and Augustine lived near Lafayette and St. Martinville in antebellum days.
Today most of that Matherne line has died out or moved elsewhere.
It remained for the four sons of Jacques Matherne and Éléonore Poché to begin one of the most prolific branches of the family, localized in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, which today contain 35 percent of the state's Matherne households. In the 1810s and 1820s all four sons had gone to Bayou Lafourche, living first in Assumption Parish, subsequently moving down bayou.
Son Augustin (m. 1812 Marie-Antoinette Sevin) and his descendants settled along the lower Lafourche between Raceland and Larose; Jacques, Jr. (m. ca. 1819 Marie-Remelie Sevin) obtained land near Thibodeauxville; Mathieu (m. ca. 1818 Suzanne Poché) established a long line of descendants, most of whom settled along Bayou Terrebonne between Houma and Montegut and along Bayou Petit Caillou toward the coastal marshes; other descendants of Mathieu made homes along the lower Lafourche near Raceland, as did the sons and grandsons of his younger brother, Antoine (m. 1824 Céleste Dufrenay).
Little is known about the descendants of the Mathernes who remained in St. James and St. Charles parishes.
According to the U.S. census, Noël and a Paul Matherne lived in St. James during the 1820s,12 and in 1870 probable descendants Octave and Eugène Matherne operated small sugar mills near Convent.
The Mathernes currently living along Bayou des Allemands between the Mississippi and Bayou Lafourche, as well as the 160 households now residing in New Orleans, are probable descendants of the early settlers of the German Coast.
Fully three-fourths of the Matherne families of Louisiana are today clustered in the extreme southeastern part of the state
Matherne Demographics
Average Matherne Salary in
United States
$44,068 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Matherne Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matherne Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Matherne occurs most in The United States. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Matherne? popularity and diffusion
The last name Matherne is the 104,504th most widely held family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 1,623,061 people. This surname is predominantly found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Matherne live; 100 percent live in North America and 100 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 1,775,424th most commonly occurring first name internationally, borne by 34 people.
The surname is most commonly used in The United States, where it is borne by 4,475 people, or 1 in 80,996. In The United States Matherne is primarily concentrated in: Louisiana, where 78 percent are found, Texas, where 7 percent are found and Florida, where 3 percent are found. Aside from The United States Matherne exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 0 percent are found and China, where 0 percent are found.
Matherne Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Matherne has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 6,215 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Matherne Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Matherne last name are 43.31% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 90.08% being registered with the political party.
Matherne earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.13% more than the national average, earning $44,068 USD per year.
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