Molica
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɒlɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Molica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 156K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
715 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Molica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 715 | 1 in 296K | 715 | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Molica | 18 |
| US United States | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 220 | Molica | 120 |
| AO Angola | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Molica | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 730K | — | Molica | 15 |
| LR Liberia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Molica | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
715 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Gabriella Molicab. 1959ITDutch politician
- Fernando Molicab. 1961BRBrazilian journalist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 715 | #12,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 195 | #99,304 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Molica?
- A machine transcription gives /mɒlɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Molica have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 715 people named Molica, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Molica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Molica is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 141 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Molica?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 715 people named Molica, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Molica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/molicaThe 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, “Molica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.