Moliere
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Jean Baptiste, French playwright
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɔʎiʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moliere is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 953K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 953K (inferred from the name graph)
349 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Jean Baptiste, French playwright
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moliere 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 349 | 1 in 953K | 365 | Moliere | 116 |
| BR Brazil | 22 | 1 in 9.6M | 22 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | Moliere | 4 |
349 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Moliere 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 English, French playwright Molière
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In Latin, second-person singular future active indicative of mōlior
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, first/third-person singular future subjunctive of moler
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)
- Molière Gèneb. 1963FRcyclist
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 365 | #59,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 283 | #65,492 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #183,107 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #141,293 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Moliere mean, and where does it come from?
- Jean Baptiste, French playwright Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Moliere?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔʎiʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Moliere have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 349 people named Moliere, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moliere.
- Where is Moliere most common?
- Moliere is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 953 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moliere?
- In the United States, the national register counted 349 people named Moliere in 2010, about 1 in 953 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moliereThe 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, “Moliere”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.