Mottola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Motta com suf. feminino singular -ola
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/moʊˈtoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mottola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 283K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 19K
- BMBermuda≈1 in 26K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Möttölä in FI Finland.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de Motta com suf. feminino singular -ola
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mottola 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Mottola | 38 |
| US United States | — | 1,175 | 1 in 283K | 1.2K | Mottola | 232 |
| AR Argentina | — | 312 | 1 in 146K | 312 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 192 | 1 in 1.1M | 192 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Mottola | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 96 | 1 in 35K | 96 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 57 | 1 in 98K | 57 | Möttölä | 5 |
| BM Bermuda | #243 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Mottola | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mottola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from Mottola, a place in Taranto province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Francesco Mottolab. 1901ITItalian Roman Catholic priest, founder and blessed (1901–1969)
- Angelo Mottolab. 1935ITItalian Roman Catholic nuncio (1935-2014)
- Giuseppe Mottolab. 1936ITItalian politician (1936-2007)
- Giovanni Mottolab. 1946ITItalian politician
- Tommy Mottolab. 1948USAmerican music executive
- Angelo Mottolab. 1957ITItalian surgeon (born 1957)
- Greg Mottolab. 1964USAmerican film director, screenwriter & television director (born 1964)
- Luis Mottolab. 1968ARArgentine-born Spanish actor
- Patrizia Mottolab. 1970ITVoice actress
- Chad Mottolab. 1971USAmerican baseball player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,056 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 312 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192 | #37,992 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 96 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Mottola?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊˈtoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mottola mean?
- Recorded meaning: de Motta com suf. feminino singular -ola
- In which country does Mottola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Mottola in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mottola.
- How common is the name Mottola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,175 people named Mottola in 2010, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Mottola compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Mottola is the 243rd most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mottolaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mottola” — the 243rd most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.