The MOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,013	1941	0.006	63
United States (1880 census)	6,191	987	0.012	124
Change since 1880	+10822	-954	-0.006	-61
Other Countries
Australia	1,121	1474	0.007	69
United Kingdom	2,774	2248	0.006	60

Top States for MOTT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,613	1144	0.009	85
Texas	1,311	1896	0.006	63
Florida	1,304	1611	0.008	82
California	1,164	2758	0.003	34
Michigan	850	1306	0.009	86
Top States for MOTT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	659	1036	0.015	147
Vermont	81	1400	0.013	133
Maine	157	1577	0.012	123
Utah	210	1488	0.009	94
Connecticut	319	1382	0.009	94

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of MOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOTT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MOTT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MOTT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	271	1.59
Mixed Race	230	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	99	0.58
Asian/Pacific	70	0.41
White (Caucasian)	14,715	86.49
Black/African American	1,628	9.57

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

Similar names to MOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOTT.

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.