Mota Family History
- Mota Name Meaning
- Spanish and Portuguese: topographic name for someone who lived by a fortified stronghold, from mot(t)a, a borrowing from Old French motte (see Motte 1). Spanish: habitational name from places in the provinces of Cuenca and Valladolid named Mota. Catalan: topographic name from mota ‘hillock’, denoting someone who lived by a hillock. Catalan: habitational name from places in Girona and Valencia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 183,533 Historical Documents with Mota on Ancestry
- 159,703 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,934 Census and Voter Lists
- 987 Military Records
- 9,362 Immigration Records
- 5,547 Member Trees
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Number of Mota families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mota census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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