Surname Matana.

  • Surname Matana in modern Croatia

    Matana families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Mljet. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and on the Island of Mljet. In Ropa on the Island of Mljet nearly every inhabitant had the family name Matana.

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  • Prevalence

    About 220 people with faimily name Matana live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than tripled.
    They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Dubrovnik (50), Zagreb (25), and in Babino Polje (20), Pomena (20) and Govedjari (20) on the Island of Mljet.

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Matana (including: Mattana , Mathana , Matanha , Madtana , Matthana , Matanna , Mathanna , Mataana and Madthana ) is present in 53 countries worldwide.

  • Characteristic first names

    Ante Matana, Mišo Matana, Pavao Matana, Pero Matana, Antun Matana, Tonko Matana, Maroje Matana, Ivana Matana, Laura Matana, Pavo Matana, Tanja Matana, Marina Matana, Ane Matana, Vicko Matana, Frano Matana, Vedran Matana, Vido Matana, Nikola Matana, Marita Matana

  • Last name Matana around the globe

    See the countries where surname Matana is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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