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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : when not a masculinized form of Motta, from a shortened pet form of a personal name ending in -mo.
  • Scottish : perhaps a habitational name from a lost place named with Middle English motte ‘fortified stronghold’ + ho(e) ‘ridge’, ‘hill’.

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