Motty
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Full of, or consisting of, motes
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Motty is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.9Kas מוטי(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 6.3Kas Moti
- GYGuyana1 in 188Kas Mottie
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Motty itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 430K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Moti, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Moti in IN India, ID Indonesia, מוטי in IL Israel, QA Qatar and Muti in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Full of, or consisting of, motes.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Motty 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 308 | Moti | 116 |
| IL Israel | #446 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 47 | מוטי | 85 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Muti | 29 |
| US United States | — | 407as Moti | 1 in 817K | 320 | Motty | 101 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 985K | listed | Moti | 23 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | מוטי | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 430K | 17 | Motty | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4as Mottie | 1 in 188K | 29 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Marceli Mottyb. 1818PLPolish writer, translator
- Łukasz Augustyn Stanisław Mottyb. 1826PLPolish politician and independence activist in the area of the Prussian partition
- Jan Mottyb. 1850PLPolish lawyer, judge
- Władysław Mottyb. 1851PLpainter (1851-1894)
- Léopold MottyFRFrench politician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Motty mean, and where does it come from?
- Full of, or consisting of, motes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Motty a male or female name?
- Motty is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Motty have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Moti in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Motty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 407 people named Moti in 2020, about 1 in 817 thousand residents.
- How common is Motty compared with other names?
- In Israel, Motty is the 446th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Motty?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mottyThe 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, “Motty” — the 446th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.