Mott

Mott is the 2,135th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,514 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,514
Rank: 2,135th
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, spelling variant of Motte.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.8%
Black, not Hispanic 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mott

Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996)English physicist, Nobel prize winner
John Mott (1865–1955)American Methodist and founder of the YMCA
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880)American suffragist

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

Surnames like Mott

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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.