Molinero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: miller
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mo.liˈne.ɾo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Molinero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 37K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 43Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
7,020 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)miller
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Molinero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #592 | 7,020 | 1 in 7.1K | 7K | Molinero | 133 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,237 | 1 in 37K | 1.2K | Molinero | 50 |
| US United States | — | 562 | 1 in 592K | 684 | Molinero | 136 |
| FR France | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 49 | Molinero | 156 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Molinero | 30 |
| HN Honduras | #819 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Molinero | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | — | 7 |
7,020 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Molinero is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma dialetal set., var. de Molinaro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Basque, " Moliñero, txokolatea urtutzeko erainkia (V-gip)" Urkia EEs 1930, 9.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Antonio Molinero Pérezb. 1908ESSpanish archaeologist
- Paloma Celab. 1943ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor and model (1943-2019)
- Anita Molinerob. 1953FRFrench plastician, painter and sculptor (born 1953)
- Carlos Molinerob. 1972ESSpanish screenwriter
- Carlos Molinerob. 1972screenwriter
- Pablo Molinerob. 1977ESSpanish actor
- Francisco Molinerob. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Francisca Suárez RoldánESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Jorge MolineroESSpanish theologian
- Eduardo Molinero BustosESSpanish writer
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7K | #786 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7K | #786 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 684 | #35,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 562 | #39,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 289 | #64,385 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 25 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Molinero mean, and where does it come from?
- miller Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Molinero?
- In the etymology graph, Müller, Moler and Molinera are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Molinero?
- In Spanish /mo.liˈne.ɾo/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Molinero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Molinero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molinero.
- Where is Molinero most common?
- Molinero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Molinero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,020 people named Molinero, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Molinero compared with other names?
- In Spain, Molinero is the 592nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/molineroThe 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, “Molinero” — the 592nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.