Given name & surname
Mott
“swamp, decomposing mass”
Mott is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “swamp, decomposing mass.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
As a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “swamp, decomposing mass”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mott through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 29 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1967. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 16,514 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mott’s family of names
In English usage, Mott as a surname has a related form in MOTE. In English usage, Mott as a surname has a related form in MOTTE. In Greek usage, Mott as a surname is a transliteration of Μοττ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Mott
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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