Mota is used as a family name or surname in Brazil. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Mota
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Brazil
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Mota

How popular is Mota?

Mota is common in Brazil.

Mota is ranked 1153 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Motas grew by 40.49931 per cent to 14182 since 2000 and ranked 2547 after elevating 704 spots. The last name was found in around 48 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Hispanic or Latino 85.55 84.01
White 12.16 12.86
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.09 0.91
Black 0.65 0.53
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.31 0.47
Others 0.24 1.23
Mota is quite popular family name mostly used in Brazil while Portugal is ahead in terms of density. Around 459151 people have been found who wears Mota as their family name. Mota is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,049 Costa Rica10
38,459 New Zealand7
7,022 Senegal7
95,557 Czech Republic6
2,279 Democratic Republic of The Congo4
10,542 China4
11,480 Japan4
1,295 Papua New Guinea4
1,817 Marshall Islands3
15,749 Finland3
18,114 Algeria3
2,754 Namibia3
41,879 Turkey2
18,718 Thailand2
37,372 Georgia2
178 Guinea-Bissau2
1,753 Cuba2
4,367 Afghanistan2
18,035 Egypt2
10,284 Kuwait2
3,940 Ethiopia2
3,871 Paraguay2
2,037 Cayman Islands1
7,847 Albania1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
7,198 Maldives1
16,228 Bulgaria1
10,190 Bahrain1
90,903 Moldova1
10,958 Bangladesh1
2,190 Barbados1
8,181 Botswana1
53,033 Nigeria1
24,460 Armenia1
7,292 Vietnam1
2,724 New Caledonia1
3,275 Nepal1
2,057 Myanmar1
17,236 Ghana1
5,467 Haiti1
8,268 Mauritius1
2,935 Madagascar1
16,283 Lithuania1
4,942 Libya1
6,212 Jamaica1
3,214 Niger1
11,510 Oman1
3,350 Fiji1
2,505 Congo1
19,810 Croatia1
13,447 Uganda1
1,179 Swaziland1
5,589 Sudan1
7,895 South Korea1
11,923 Slovenia1
24,421 Slovakia1
746 Dominica1
3,993 El Salvador1
16,073 Latvia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
5,205 Qatar49
20,906 Israel47
17,488 Norway39
12,692 Scotland33
1,985 Luxembourg33
337 Andorra29
80,267 Kazakhstan24
42,407 Sweden22
64,976 Belarus13
2,892 Iceland13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
3,075 Panama98
31,215 Australia72
2,259 Trinidad and Tobago70
5,248 Singapore59
5,846 Ireland55
17,601 United Arab Emirates54
Countries with hundreds of Mota:
5,462 Argentina956
80 Cape Verde918
5,160 Canada853
4,801 Cameroon694
9,862 England651
12,805 Iran614
3,883 Colombia507
71 São Tomé and Príncipe468
2,522 Switzerland441
23,349 Italy426
2,941 Ecuador414
11,492 Kenya392
14,274 Tanzania316
8,119 Romania271
11,767 Saudi Arabia269
17,962 Morocco268
1,833 Uruguay257
1,184 Puerto Rico231
43,679 Indonesia219
25,809 Ukraine213
3,434 Bolivia195
335 Macau188
6,110 Chile162
12,455 Zimbabwe148
13,267 Greece147
87,828 Russia139
19,620 Netherlands137
14,304 Belgium126
13,194 Malaysia126
1,527 Nicaragua103
Countries with thousands of Mota:
5,884 India8,758
664 Spain8,243
520 Mozambique7,565
487 Guatemala4,428
3,690 France2,143
123 Lesotho2,075
70 East Timor1,910
3,655 Pakistan1,886
3,566 South Africa1,826
1,676 Malawi1,711
10,039 Philippines1,482
7,103 Germany1,345
2,990 Peru1,097
Countries with ten thousands of Mota:
402 Mexico46,170
55 Portugal30,577
88 Dominican Republic22,027
114 Angola18,808
330 Venezuela15,378
3,902 United States10,266
Countries with hundred thousands of Mota:
120 Brazil259,782
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Domenico Mota was 31 years old when he migrated to New York on April 22, 1897. He lived in New York, Italy where he worked as laborer and took Karamania from Naples. Farmer Ettore Mota, Pietro Mota (43) Farmer, 24 years old Rocco Mota, are other Mota that migrated to US.

Comments

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Mota
Mota is a dialectal form of clod of earth levee, isolated mound nickname of a castle widespread name as the name of localities or villages.

Mota Namesakes

  • Joaquim Magalhães Mota, Portuguese Politician
  • Mohammad Motamedi, Musical Artist
  • Adolfo Mota Hernández, Mexican Politician
  • José Mota, Soccer player
  • Noreen Motamed, Artist
  • Claudia Anaya Mota, Mexican Politician
  • Edward Motale, Soccer player
  • Mohammad Motamedi, Musical Artist
  • Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Actress
  • Amir Arsalan Motahari, Soccer striker
  • Samuel Osvaldo Mota, from 2017 drama movie Reinicio: Tiempo de volver a Empezar en un nuevo camino de fe, who characterized the Martin Soto Mayor .
  • In 1977, Masoja Mota characterized the role of N in comedy movie Ngaka.

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