Behind the Name: Comments for the name Motel

Comments for MOTEL:

The tailor in Joseph Stein's "Fiddler on the Roof" bears this name.

-- giraffe 5/17/2005

Pronounced moh-tul.

-- Miss Claire 7/29/2006

A motel is like an inn.

-- 7up 2/11/2007

This is seriously a name? I'm sorry, but I find it weird for someone to be named after a cheap hotel, especially in an English-speaking country.

-- Anonymous User 8/6/2011

Often spelled "Muttel", as it's pronounced somewhere between-- "mah-tuhl". The nickname is Motty. This is a very common name in Chasidic and other Orthodox Jewish communities.

-- materetsky 4/16/2012

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