In Croatia, Mateuš families are Croats (from Lepoglava area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Vrbovec area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Mateuš live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Vrbno in Lepoglava area (<10), Sesvete (<10), Virovitica (<5), Petrijanec in Varazdin area (<5), and in Dubrava in Vrbovec area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.