Molïna
surname · Latin script
Molïna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Molina. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 170
- UYUruguay1 in 257
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Molïna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #290 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 474 (measured from records)
- 1 in 170 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Molina in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish Molina. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Molïna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #75 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 548 | 4.6K | Molina | 243 |
| AR Argentina | #30 | 156,655 | 1 in 290 | 157K | Molina | 158 |
| CO Colombia | #57 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 344 | 68 | Molina | 201 |
| ES Spain | #29 | 125,316 | 1 in 399 | 125K | Molina | 235 |
| US United States | #752 | 96,979 | 1 in 3.4K | 98K | Molina | 474 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 62,141 | 1 in 272 | 62K | Molina | 100 |
| SV El Salvador | #38 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | 38K | Molina | 94 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 29,929 | 1 in 170 | 30K | — | 113 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 13,156 | 1 in 257 | 13K | — | 65 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Molïna mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Molina. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Molïna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 239 thousand people named Molïna in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molina.
- Where is Molïna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Molïna is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 170 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Molïna?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 156,655 people named Molïna, about 1 in 290 residents.
- How common is Molïna compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Molïna is the 75th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mol%C3%AFnaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Molïna” — the 75th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.