Morta
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Morta is a surname, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- PHPhilippines1 in 22K◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 133K
- AUAustralia1 in 855K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.5K ◐
- Sources
- 41 ●
- 1 in 22K ◐
across 9 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
Philippines
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈4.9K | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 22K | — | Morta | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈423△ | 195 rec. | 1 in 133K | — | Morta | 11 |
| US United States | ≈93 | 885 rec. | 1 in 3.6M | — | Morta | 41 |
| AU Australia | ≈30 | 81 rec. | 1 in 855K | — | Morta | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈19 | 38 rec. | 1 in 2M | — | Morta | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈19△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 11M | — | Morta | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 | 45 rec. | 1 in 8M | — | Morta | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈8 | 11 rec. | 1 in 9.9M | — | Morta | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈5 | 10 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | — | Morta | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 57 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 11 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
Roughly 4.9K people in Philippines bear this name (about 1 in 22K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English9.7K78%
- Hindi1.2K10%
- Telugu7556%
- Polish3403%
- Spanish2242%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 9,720 | 78% |
| Hindi | 1,219 | 10% |
| Telugu | 755 | 6% |
| Polish | 340 | 3% |
| Spanish | 224 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ángel Morta Figulsb. 1914ESSpanish Catholic bishop (1914-1972)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 755 | #4,955 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 351 | #11,963 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 247 | #30,929 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 57 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 57 | #45,458 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 47 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 47 | #52,499 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31 | #61,667 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 31 | #61,483 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Morta?
- We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Morta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Morta have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.9 thousand people bear Morta in the Philippines, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled morta.
- Where is Morta most common?
- Morta is densest in the Philippines, where we estimate about 1 in 22 thousand people carry it.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Morta”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.