Motas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of Mystery of Time and Space
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moʊtəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Motas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 117K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 143K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of Mystery of Time and Space.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Motas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Motas | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 835 | 1 in 254K | 835 | Motas | 24 |
| AO Angola | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Motas | 2 |
| PL Poland | 142 | 1 in 270K | 72 | — | — |
| RO Romania | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Motas | 5 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Motas | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | Motas | 8 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Motas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, accusative feminine plural of mōtus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, passive infinitive of mota
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, genitive plural of mot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Constantin Motașb. 1891ROzoologist mathematician (1891-1980)
- Mieczysław Motasb. 1929PLPolish archivist
- Ferdynand Motasb. 1942PLpolitician
- Carles Motas Lópezb. 1968ESCatalan 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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 835 | #10,860 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 72 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #38,221 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 70 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 70 | #39,482 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 29 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Motas mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Mystery of Time and Space. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Motas?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊtəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Motas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Motas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled motas.
- How common is the name Motas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 835 people named Motas, about 1 in 254 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Motas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/motasThe 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, “Motas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.