Surname Mateša in modern Croatia

Mateša families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko area. According to some sources they are from Matesko Selo near Generalski Stol or from Matese near Bosiljevo. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Mateše in Vrbovsko area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Mateša.

Prevalence

About 450 people with faimily name Mateša live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 470 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Karlovac (60), Matese in Vrbovsko area (55), Vodice (40), and in Podvozic in Duga Resa area (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Sweden (4), Germany (3), the United States (2), Canada (2), Australia (2), and to Argentina (1).
Family name Mateša (including: Matesa , Matesha , Matessa and Mathesa ) is present in 30 countries worldwide. "Matessa " is used by some 300 people in Tanzania , about 200 in Congo , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zlatko Mateša, Vesna Mateša, Branko Mateša, Neven Mateša, Milan Mateša, Ivan Mateša, Anita Mateša, Tone Mateša, Stjepan Mateša, Dražen Mateša, Dalibor Mateša, Robert Mateša, Bojan Mateša, Marijan Mateša, Ivica Mateša, Franjo Mateša, Zvjezdana Mateša, Bernard Mateša, Danijela Mateša

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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