Mòllica
surname · Latin script
Mòllica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Vulgar Latin *mollīca, derived from Latin mollis (“soft”).
- ARArgentina1 in 138K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 175K
- UYUruguay1 in 94K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
1,900 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mollica in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 1 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)- Vulgar Latin*mollīca(measured from records)
- Latinmollis“soft”(measured from records)
From Vulgar Latin *mollīca, derived from Latin mollis (“soft”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mòllica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,900 | 1 in 175K | 1.9K | Mollica | 70 |
| AR Argentina | 329 | 1 in 138K | 329 | Mollica | 31 |
| BR Brazil | 275 | 1 in 770K | 275 | Mollica | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | 54 | 1 in 156K | 54 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 48 | 1 in 244K | 48 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 36 | 1 in 94K | 36 | Mollica | 7 |
1,900 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mòllica mean, and where does it come from?
- From Vulgar Latin *mollīca, derived from Latin mollis (“soft”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Mòllica have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Mòllica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mollica.
- Where is Mòllica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mòllica is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 94 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mòllica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,900 people named Mòllica in 2010, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B2llicaThe 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, “Mòllica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.