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Type Surname (from location & from nickname)
Usage Italian
Pronounced Pron. /ma.ˈtɛ.ra/  [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

Habitational name from Matera, a city in Basilicata, Italy.

Another theory is that it was a nickname deriving from Albanian mat-erë, composed of mat "measure" and erë "wind", but this seems unlikely.
Added 8/5/2014 by Fanny
Edited 4/24/2025 by jocatchi