Source For Italian Origin
The last name Matteis is an Italian surname that is quite common in some Italian regions like Campania in Southern Italy, Lazio in Central Italy, and Piemonte in Northern Italy while it is less common in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna (Central Italy) and in Lombardia (Northern Italy).
The Matteis surname can be found in 48 Italian towns, whereas De Matteis which has the same origin is much more common and is present in 464 towns all over Italy, though it originates in Puglia (Southern Italy).
As for the origin of Matteis, it derives from the Latin name Mattheus (Matteo in Italian, Matthew in English) used in the ablative plural Mattheis and then Matteis in Italian or De Matteis meaning literally “belonging to the family of Matteo” as both Matteis and De Matteis which end in the Latin ablative “–eis” mean that someone was son/daughter of a certain Matteo which was the ancestor of this family.
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