# Mota (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mota/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 14,182 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,547 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 21,770 people |
| Change since 2000 | +41% (10,094 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mota in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 86% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 0.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mota in Brazil, the United States and the Dominican Republic.

## People named Mota

- Bethany Mota, American vlogger
- Renan Mota, Brazilian association football player
- Guillermo Mota, Baseball pitcher
- Formiga, Brazilian association football player
- Nino, Brazilian footballer

## Similar surnames

Mata, Mott, Mote, Motta, Motto, Motte, Mowatt, Moody, Mead, Meade, Mehta, Mathew.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.