Molie

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɑɔ̯li/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Molie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 391K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 514K
  • ESSpain≈1 in 7.5M

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈130 people, est.

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 391K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Molié in ES Spain.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Molie 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.

Where Molie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈130 est.≈1 in 514K27Molie80
BE Belgium301 in 391K30Molie6
ES Spain≈7 est.≈1 in 7.5M—Molié2
DK Denmark——4——
GY Guyana——1——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Molie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Malaysia, Belgium

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Molié

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Dominican Republic

    Also written Mölië

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Molié

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Molie 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 Slovak, inflection of molí:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, moth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, MÓLIE, molii, s. f. Nume generic dat mai multor specii de fluturi mici de noapte, ale căror larve rod lucrurile de origine vegetală sau animală. ◊ Compuse: molia-zidurilor sau molie-de-casă = mic crustaceu terestru cu corpul oval, cenușiu, care trăiește în locuri umede și întunecoase (Oniscus murarius); molia-stupilor = găselniță1.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

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)

FormalMadame,Dear Ms Molie, (English)
InformalBonjour Molie,Hi Molie, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Molie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195131—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200830#37,013
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193117—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)18918—

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Molie?
A machine transcription gives /mɑɔ̯li/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Molie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 132 people named Molie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molie.
Where is Molie most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Molie is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 391 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Molie?
In Belgium, the national register counted 30 people named Molie in 2008, about 1 in 391 thousand residents.

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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, “Molie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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