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mota Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. Spanish: habitational name from places in the provinces of Cuenca and Valladolid named Mota.
  3. Catalan: topographic name from mota ‘hillock’, denoting someone who lived by a hillock.
  4. Catalan: habitational name from places in Girona and Valencia.

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Distribution of mota Families in the US in 1920
Number of mota families
 10-18
 4-9
 1-3
 0
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