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Motaz

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Mutaz

Motaz has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Motaz, 2024

1 in 669,000

Motaz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Motaz: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Mutaz

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Motaz means

Motaz is a alternate transcription of Mutaz.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Motaz is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmuʕ.tazz/ for Motaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mutaz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Motaz between 2008 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2012; its best national rank was #7,943 in 2012.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Motaz?

Motaz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Motaz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Motaz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Motazs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Motaz was born before 2014 — so the typical Motaz is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
71.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
57
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 71.9% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Motaz rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (10)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,943
2012

Spellings of Motaz

Motaz is not the most common spelling — Boaz is, with 32.8% against Motaz's 0.54%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Motaz around the world

Where Motaz ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2010–2010
    #5,581
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Motaz by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,943
2012
Peak year
2012
10 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Motaz

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MottiMottyMotleyMotiMottMutazMoatazMotezMotokiMontazCortazTazMartazDontazMoutazAvitaz

Sibling names for Motaz

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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