Mottershead

English

Alternative forms

• Mothershead, Mothershed

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)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mottershead is the 92719^th 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 626.