Moliš
surname · Latin script
Moliš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from molius ‘brickmaker’ or molis ‘clay’, also used in a transferred senses as a nickname for a dirty person.
- CZCzechia1 in 214K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 301K
- ESSpain1 in 321K
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)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)
245 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Molis in US United States, PL Poland.
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 molius ‘brickmaker’ or molis ‘clay’, also used in a transferred senses as a nickname for a dirty person.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moliš 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.
245 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: 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Moliš is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular present of moliti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 50 | #29,154 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moliš mean, and where does it come from?
- from molius ‘brickmaker’ or molis ‘clay’, also used in a transferred senses as a nickname for a dirty person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- In which country does Moliš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 245 people named Moliš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molis.
- Where is Moliš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moliš is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 214 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moliš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 245 people named Moliš in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moli%C5%A1The 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, “Moliš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.