Motha Surname
Approximately 19,772 people bear this surname
Motha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 15,668 | 1:3,458 | 456 |
| Sri Lanka | 2,266 | 1:9,183 | 1,334 |
| India | 929 | 1:825,689 | 36,720 |
| Swaziland | 177 | 1:7,334 | 424 |
| Australia | 129 | 1:209,269 | 20,284 |
| United States | 123 | 1:2,946,821 | 172,836 |
| England | 76 | 1:733,132 | 40,828 |
| United Arab Emirates | 72 | 1:127,254 | 10,508 |
| Philippines | 64 | 1:1,581,847 | 107,292 |
| Canada | 42 | 1:877,276 | 67,671 |
| Pakistan | 42 | 1:4,253,426 | 29,680 |
| Guatemala | 32 | 1:502,583 | 5,075 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Brazil | 14 | 1:15,291,024 | 280,658 |
| Zimbabwe | 11 | 1:1,403,476 | 76,064 |
| Thailand | 11 | 1:6,421,668 | 407,040 |
| France | 11 | 1:6,038,429 | 280,838 |
| Colombia | 9 | 1:5,308,230 | 18,838 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| New Zealand | 5 | 1:905,665 | 45,114 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Lesotho | 3 | 1:677,519 | 19,546 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
Motha (1,246) may also be a first name.
Motha Demographics
Average Motha Salary in
United States
$44,982 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Motha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Motha Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Motha (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﺘﻪ, Hindi: मोथा, Marathi: मोठा, Oriya: େମାଠା) is found most frequently in South Africa. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Motha? popularity and diffusion
Motha is the 27,175th most commonly held last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 368,579 people. The last name Motha is primarily found in Africa, where 80 percent of Motha reside; 80 percent reside in Southern Africa and 80 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Motha is also the 223,764th most widely held forename in the world. It is borne by 1,246 people.
The last name Motha is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is carried by 15,668 people, or 1 in 3,458. In South Africa Motha is primarily concentrated in: Mpumalanga, where 49 percent live, Gauteng, where 29 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 11 percent live. Beside South Africa Motha exists in 50 countries. It also occurs in Sri Lanka, where 11 percent live and India, where 5 percent live.
Motha Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Motha are 43.07% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 96.3% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Motha earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 34.01% less than the national average, earning R 156,828 per year; in Colombia they earn 45.57% less than the national average, earning $12,357,400 COP per year; in United States they earn 4.25% more than the national average, earning $44,982 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.4% more than the national average, earning $55,346 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Motha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Motha in the Oriya language | ||
| େମାଠା | ematha | - |
| Motha in the Marathi language | ||
| मोठा | motha | 78.88 |
| मोथा | motha | 15.52 |
| मोटा | mota | 1.72 |
| मोथां | motham | 0.86 |
| मुथा | mutha | 0.86 |
| Motha in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﺘﻪ | amth | 60 |
| ﻣﺘﻬﺎ | mtha | 20 |
| ﺍﻣﺘﻬﺎ | amtha | 20 |
| Motha in the Hindi language | ||
| मोथा | motha | 58.97 |
| मोठा | motha | 41.03 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Motha
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