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    The surname Mote

    A surname, carried by 4,313 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M300

    Mote: #7,697 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mote #7,697, 4,313 people Mote: #7,697 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mote #7,697, 4,313 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mote is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    From the French and English surname, spelling variant of Motte, from the noun motte (“stronghold”); also a variant of Mott.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,313 people named Mote in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,585 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,161.

    #7,697
    rank among US surnames
    4,313
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,387)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,692Mathison4,31671,535
    #7,694Oxley4,31571,552
    #7,695Schmucker4,31471,568
    #7,697Mote4,31371,585

    Who is named Mote

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    89% of people named Mote identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mote

    Mote has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mote come from?
    From the French and English surname, spelling variant of Motte, from the noun motte (“stronghold”); also a variant of Mott.
    How common is the surname Mote?
    4,313 people in the United States had the surname Mote in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,585 Americans. It ranked 7,697th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mote?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Mote identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Mote getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,313 in 2010, up 3.7%.