Mothes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mothes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Matthäus, Timotheus, Moses.
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 88K
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Matthäus, Timotheus, Moses
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mothes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Mothes | 78 |
| FR France | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 92 | Mothes | 157 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 121 | Mothes | 89 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Mothes | 1 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | Mothes | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 493K | — | Mothes | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christian Gottlieb Mothesb. 1758mayor
- Oscar Mothesb. 1828DEGerman architect and historian (1828–1903)
- Kurt Mothesb. 1900DEGerman biochemist and botanist (1900-1983)
- Peter-Andreas Mothesb. 1935DEGerman painter (1935-2008)
- Winrich Mothesb. 1935DEGerman pediatric surgeon
- Jürgen Mothesb. 19451945|1996|
- Harald Mothesb. 1956DEGerman footballer
- Jörn Mothesb. 1962DEGerman ministry official
- Cornelia Mothesb. 1982DEGerman university teacher
- Christine Mothesb. 2000DEGerman singer (soprano) and flutist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mothes mean, and where does it come from?
- from Matthäus, Timotheus, Moses Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Mothes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Mothes in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mothes.
- How common is the name Mothes?
- In Norway, the national register counted 38 people named Mothes, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mothesThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mothes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.