Máthé History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the Máthé family

The surname Máthé was first found in Champagne, where the family has been a prominent family for centuries, and held a family seat with lands and manor. The family were well established in the region of Ardennes/Marne and several members of the family distinguished themselves through their contributions toward the community in which they lived and were rewarded with lands, titles and letters patent confirming their nobility.

Early History of the Máthé family

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Máthé Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Matey, Mateu, Mathy, Mathay, Mathenay, Mathe, Mathey, Maathe, Mathei, Mattei, Mathei, Mathes and many more.

Early Notables of the Máthé family

Jean Baptiste Mathey (1630-1696), a French architect and painter born in Dijon

Máthé Ranking

France, the name Máthé is the 1,236^th most popular surname with an estimated 4,550 people with that name. 1 However, in South Africa, the name Máthé is ranked the 182^nd most popular surname with an estimated 35,410 people with that name. 2

Máthé migration to the United States +

Máthé Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

John Baptis Mathe, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1855 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Máthé (post 1700) +

Joaquin Mathé, American politician, U.S. Consul in Sonsonate, 1884 4
Ketty Mathé (1988-2007), French bronze medalist judoka at the 2007 European Open Championships
Georges Mathé (1922-2010), French oncologist and immunologist whoperformed the first successful bone marrow transplant in 1959
Gábor Máthé (b. 1985), Hungarian football goalkeeper
Édouard Mathé (1886-1934), Australian-born French silent film actor who starred in 51 films between 1914 and 1924

Sources +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
"Most Common Last Names in South Africa." Forebears, https://forebears.io/south-africa/surnames
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 19) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html