The mota Surname
mota Name Meaning and History
- Spanish and Portuguese: topographic name for someone who lived by a fortified stronghold, from mot(t)a, a borrowing from Old French motte (see Motte 1).
- Spanish: habitational name from places in the provinces of Cuenca and Valladolid named Mota.
- Catalan: topographic name from mota ‘hillock’, denoting someone who lived by a hillock.
- Catalan: habitational name from places in Girona and Valencia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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