Mota

At the 2020 census, 14,402 Americans bore the surname Mota — 2,447th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,402
Rank: 2,447th
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mota described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 84.7%
White, not Hispanic 12.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mota

Rosa Mota (born 1958)Portoguese athletics competitor
Josefina Vázquez Mota (born 1961)Mexican politician
Bethany Mota (born 1995)American vlogger
Antonio Mota (1939–1986)Mexican footballer
Renan Mota (born 1991)Brazilian association football player
Salvador Mota (1922–1986)Mexican footballer
Dany Mota (born 1998)association football player
Jean Mota (born 1993)Brazilian footballer

People named Mota with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.