Motal

surname · Latin script

Meaning: masculine singular past active participle of motat

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/moʊtəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Motal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 47K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 292K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 777K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

226 people

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

masculine singular past active participle of motat

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Motal 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.

Where Motal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2261 in 47K226Motal17
US United States2041 in 1.6M204—3
PL Poland1311 in 292K68Motal15
IN India281 in 47M28——
SK Slovakia71 in 777K7Motal3

226 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Motal is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Motál

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Josef Motalb. 1925CZCzech university educator and roman catholic priest

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)

FormalDear Mr Motal,
InformalHi Motal,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Motal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—226#7,453
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—224#5,291
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010204#90,495
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000194#88,825
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020185#103,399
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202668—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—68#39,882
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202663—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—63#42,757
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—28#63,631
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)19957—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Motal mean, and where does it come from?
masculine singular past active participle of motat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Motal?
A machine transcription gives /moʊtəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Motal have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 226 people named Motal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled motal.
Where is Motal most common?
Motal is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 47 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Motal?
In Czechia, the national register counted 226 people named Motal, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.

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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, “Motal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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