Mollén
surname · Latin script
Mollén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 557 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Devon; Essex; Durham. Irish Ó Maoláin, see Mullen . • GB frequency 1881: 25 • Main GB location 1881: scattered English: (i) variant of Mallinson .
- NLNetherlands1 in 31K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 52K
- DEGermany≈1 in 410Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
557 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mollen in US United States, NL Netherlands, BE Belgium and 2 more and Möllen in DE Germany.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Devon; Essex; Durham. Irish Ó Maoláin, see Mullen . • GB frequency 1881: 25 • Main GB location 1881: scattered English: (i) variant of Mallinson . (ii) relationship name from the Middle English female personal name *Mollin (an unrecorded diminutive form of Moll , a common version of Maud) + the patronymic marker -son.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mollén is found
(measured from records)Mollén 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 557 | 1 in 31K | 557 | Mollen | 26 |
| US United States | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 269 | Mollen | 140 |
| BE Belgium | 224 | 1 in 52K | 224 | Mollen | 17 |
| DE Germany | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 413K | listed | Möllen | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Mollen | 33 |
| IE Ireland | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Mollen | 11 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 1 |
557 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Arne B. Mollénb. 1913NONorwegian sports official (1913–2000)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mollén mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Devon; Essex; Durham. Irish Ó Maoláin, see Mullen . • GB frequency 1881: 25 • Main GB location 1881: scattered English: (i) variant of Mallinson . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mollén?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 557 people named Mollén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mollen. After it come United States, Belgium, Germany and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mollén most common?
- Mollén is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 31 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mollén?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 557 people named Mollén in 2007, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moll%C3%A9nThe 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, “Mollén” — ranked 3428th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.