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mott Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Motte 1.
  2. English: from Motte, a medieval pet form of the personal name Matilda (see Mould).
  3. German: topographic name for someone who lived by or owned property in a marshy area, from Middle High German mot ‘mud’, ‘swamp’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mott Families in the US in 1920
Number of mott families
 308-614
 103-307		 1-102
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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