Matress Surname
Approximately 352 people bear this surname
Matress Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 340 | 1:50,350 | 7,017 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Matress (72) may also be a first name.
Matress Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matress Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Matress is found most frequently in Malawi. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Matress? popularity and diffusion
Matress is the 798,040th most numerous family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 20,703,255 people. Matress occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Matress reside; 97 percent reside in Southern Africa and 97 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Matress is also the 1,143,416th most widely held given name in the world, held by 72 people.
The last name is most frequent in Malawi, where it is borne by 340 people, or 1 in 50,350. Excluding Malawi it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 0 percent are found.
Matress Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Matress has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Matress last name rose 500 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Matress
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