Mollo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Fire (The African book of names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries
/mollo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Mollo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 920(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 9.9K
- ARArgentina1 in 11K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 924 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mollo
- Spanish:/mollo/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Fire.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where the surname Mollo is found
(measured from records)Mollo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #69 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 924 | — | Mollo | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mollo | 15 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,122 | 1 in 11K | 4.1K | Mollo | 63 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Mollo | 37 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Mollo | 41 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Mollo | 49 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Mollo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, wet, damp, saturated, soaked
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, softly, gently
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, bundle
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Enrico Mollob. 1913ITItalian bicycle racer (1913–1992)
- Andrew Mollob. 1940GBBritish military historian
- Fabio Mollob. 1980ITItalian film director
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mollo mean, and where does it come from?
- Fire. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Mollo?
- In Spanish /mollo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mollo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Mollo in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mollo. After it come South Africa, Argentina, Italy and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mollo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 4,122 people named Mollo, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Mollo compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Mollo is the 69th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mollo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/molloThe 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, “Mollo” — the 69th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.