Molnar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name from molndr ‘miller’, probably a Magyarized form of the Slavic word for a miller, mlinar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmoʊɫnɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Molnar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 3.7K
- DEGermany≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- 1 in 801 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
occupational name from molndr ‘miller’, probably a Magyarized form of the Slavic word for a miller, mlinar. Molnar is also found as a Slovenian surname.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Molnar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #12 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 101K | Molnar | 206 |
| US United States | — | 8,586 | 1 in 39K | 8.6K | Molnar | 350 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 6,794 | 1 in 801 | 6.8K | — | 3 |
| RO Romania | #255 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Molnar | 50 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Molnar | 114 |
| RS Serbia | #925 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Molnar | 36 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,252 | 1 in 3.4K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Molnar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Ferenc, Hungarian writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
variant of Molenaar ‘miller’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ferenc Molnárb. 1878HUHungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)
- Thomas Molnarb. 1921HUHungarian academic (1921-2010)
- Vera Molnarb. 1923DEGerman actress (1923–1986)
- Ralph Molnarb. 1943USAmerican paleontologist
- Peter Molnarb. 1943USAmerican geophysicist and professor (1943–2022)
- Thomas Molnarb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Miklos Molnarb. 1970DKDanish footballer
- Brižitka Molnarb. 1985RSSerbian volleyball player
- Julie Kjær Molnarb. 1993NONorwegian curler (born 1993)
- Alexis Molnaractress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.6K | #4,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,181 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.3K | #397 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Molnar come from?
- occupational name from molndr ‘miller’, probably a Magyarized form of the Slavic word for a miller, mlinar. Molnar is also found as a Slovenian surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Molnar?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmoʊɫnɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Molnar mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name from molndr ‘miller’, probably a Magyarized form of the Slavic word for a miller, mlinar.
- In which country does Molnar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Molnar in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molnar.
- Where is Molnar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Molnar is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 801 people — even though Hungary holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Molnar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,586 people named Molnar in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Molnar compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Molnar is the 12th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/molnarThe 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, “Molnar” — the 12th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.