Mottershead
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Habitational surname from a lost place in the parish of Mottram St. Andrew, in Cheshire, from the Old English personal name Mōtere, a byname from mōtere (“speaker”), + -s- + heafod (“head; summit, top of a hill”).
Proper noun
Mottershead (plural Mottersheads)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Mottershead is the 92719th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 198 individuals. Mottershead is most common among White (89.9%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mottershead”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 626.