Lamotte
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Huguenot name; first attested Francis La Motte (refugee from Ypres)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lamɔt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lamotte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 145K
- BEBelgium1 in 15K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Huguenot name; first attested Francis La Motte (refugee from Ypres)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lamotte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Lamotte | 2 |
| FR France | #593 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 916 | Lamotte | 264 |
| US United States | — | 2,289 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Lamotte | 142 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Lamotte | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 792 | 1 in 15K | 792 | Lamotte | 54 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Lamotte | 55 |
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 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
- Franz Lamotteb. 1751ATBelgian composer
- Philippe Christophe de Lamotte-Guéryb. 1769FRFrench soldier and officer (1769–1848)
- Étienne Lamotteb. 1903BEindologist, priest, professor (1903-1983)
- Martin Lamotteb. 1947FRFrench actor
- Christophe Lamotteb. 1950FRFrench film director
- Xavier Lamotteb. 1961FRFrench politician
- Mado Lamotteb. 1966CACanadian drag queen
- Joakim Lamotteb. 1978SEpublic debater
- Loulou Lamotteb. 1981SESwedish singer
- Jackie HaasUSnot in their usual nameAmerican 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,248 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 916 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 902 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 895 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 792 | #1,771 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Lamotte mean, and where does it come from?
- a Huguenot name; first attested Francis La Motte (refugee from Ypres) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Lamotte?
- A machine transcription gives /lamɔt/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Lamotte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Lamotte in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamotte.
- How common is the name Lamotte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,289 people named Lamotte in 2010, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Lamotte compared with other names?
- In France, Lamotte is the 593rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamotteThe 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, “Lamotte” — the 593rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.