Motto Family History
- Motto Name Meaning
- Italian: when not a masculinized form of Motta, from a shortened pet form of a personal name ending in -mo. Scottish: perhaps a habitational name from a lost place named with Middle English motte ‘fortified stronghold’ + ho(e) ‘ridge’, ‘hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 27,369 Historical Documents with Motto on Ancestry
- 11,601 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,404 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,586 Military Records
- 1,614 Immigration Records
- 5,164 Member Trees
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Number of Motto families
 4 - 5  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Motto census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Motto census records
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