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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Motte 1.
  • English : from Motte, a medieval pet form of the personal name Matilda (see Mould).
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by or owned property in a marshy area, from Middle High German mot ‘mud’, ‘swamp’.

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