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The MOTES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,326 9036 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 594 8404 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +2732 -632 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MOTES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 689 1136 0.015 155
Georgia 501 2157 0.006 61
Florida 408 5179 0.003 26
South Carolina 228 2726 0.006 57
Texas 198 9541 0.001 9
Top States for MOTES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 689 1136 0.015 155
Georgia 501 2157 0.006 61
South Carolina 228 2726 0.006 57
Arkansas 110 3241 0.004 41
Mississippi 107 3238 0.004 38

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MOTES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MOTES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MOTES in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MOTES by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MOTES

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MOTES surname.

Ethnic distribution of MOTES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 171 5.14
White (Hispanic) 89 2.68
Mixed Race 48 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 46 1.38
Asian/Pacific 13 0.39
White (Caucasian) 2,959 88.97

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MOTES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

MOTES is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MOTES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MOTES.

Similar names to MOTES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOTES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MOTES

The following words are slight variants of MOTES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.