Matko families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko area and in Karlovac. In Brlenić in Jastrebarsko area every second inhabitant had the family name Matko.
Prevalence
About 190 people with faimily name Matko live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Brlenic in Jastrebarsko area (80), Zagreb (35), Draganic in Karlovac area (10), Zlatar-Bistrica in Oroslavje area (<10), and in Karlovac (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
