Mollà
surname · Latin script
Mollà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname. Recorded meaning: status name for someone with a qualification in Islamic religious learning, from Persian mulla, a derivative of Arabic mauld, maulwT ‘scholar’ (usually transcribed in English as mullah).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 560(inferred from the name graph)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 1.3K
- INIndia1 in 2.2K
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 Mollà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #485 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 560 (inferred from the name graph)
590,154 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Molla in IN India, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 1 more and ሞላ in ET Ethiopia.
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)
status name for someone with a qualification in Islamic religious learning, from Persian mulla, a derivative of Arabic mauld, maulwT ‘scholar’ (usually transcribed in English as mullah).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mollà 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #85 | 590,154 | 1 in 2.2K | 590K | Molla | 117 |
| BD Bangladesh | #32 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 560 | — | Molla | 102 |
| ET Ethiopia | #33 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | ሞላ | 33 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,572as Malla | 1 in 2.2K | 7.6K | — | 6 |
| US United States | — | 7,131as Moll | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Molla | 190 |
| BH Bahrain | #162 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Molla | 7 |
590,154 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names. 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 Mollà mean, and where does it come from?
- status name for someone with a qualification in Islamic religious learning, from Persian mulla, a derivative of Arabic mauld, maulwT ‘scholar’ (usually transcribed in English as mullah). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Mollà have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 590 thousand people named Mollà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molla.
- How common is the name Mollà?
- In India, the national register counted 590,154 people named Mollà, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Mollà compared with other names?
- In India, Mollà is the 85th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moll%C3%A0The 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, “Mollà” — the 85th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.