Moliño
surname · Latin script
Moliño is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Peru. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of numerous places named Molino, from molino ‘mill’, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a mill. Molinos is also found as a Greek name.
- PEPeru
- COColombia
- PYParaguay
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Molino in PE Peru, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 2 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)habitational name from any of numerous places named Molino, from molino ‘mill’, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a mill. Molinos is also found as a Greek name.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Moliño counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 Moliño mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous places named Molino, from molino ‘mill’, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a mill. Molinos is also found as a Greek name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 1 other source.
- In which country does Moliño have the most bearers?
- Moliño is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled molino.
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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, “Moliño”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.