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its Italian :) that's my moms last name mota comes from molta which means many in Italian mota is of Italian descendent

Mota is also a Portuguese Surname. It's origins come from a General Fernandes Mendes de Gondar, that helped the 1st King of Portugal in the conquest of lands from the Moors. As a reward, he was offered the Lands of Mota in northern Portugal. His son Rui Gomes de Gondar, Master of the Lands of Mota, decided to use Mota as his Surname. This name change happed between the years 1211 and 1223. Later his descendant, Jeronimo da Mota, a noble in the Kings Corte, recieved from King John III of Portugal, the Family Coat of Arms for the Mota Family.

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