Mottern Surname

387,068th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 917 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Mottern Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mottern Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States9111:397,86934,851
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States631:797,12249,780

Mottern Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Mottern Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Mottern is borne by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mottern? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 387,068th most commonly used last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 7,947,160 people. The last name Mottern is mostly found in The Americas, where 70 percent of Mottern are found; 70 percent are found in North America and 70 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The last name Mottern is most numerous in The United States, where it is borne by 911 people, or 1 in 397,869. In The United States Mottern is most prevalent in: Tennessee, where 20 percent live, California, where 7 percent live and Florida, where 6 percent live. Beside The United States Mottern occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in The Philippines, where 0 percent live and Canada, where 0 percent live.

Mottern Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Mottern has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Mottern last name expanded 1,446 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Mottern Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Mottern last name are 24.39% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 71.16% registered to vote for the political party.

Mottern earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 5.25% less than the national average, earning $40,885 USD per year.

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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
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  • 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 Mottern
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