Molini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma pl. de Molino
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/molini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Molini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 90K(measured from records)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 44K
- UYUruguay1 in 46K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
504 people
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma pl. de Molino
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Molini 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 504 | 1 in 90K | 504 | Molini | 40 |
| IT Italy | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 131K | listed | Molini | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 267 | 1 in 793K | 267 | Molini | 40 |
| US United States | 219 | 1 in 1.5M | 227 | Molini | 29 |
| CU Cuba | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Molini | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 74 | 1 in 46K | 74 | Molini | 7 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Molini | 4 |
504 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Molini 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, Variante di Molino
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Catalan, inflection of molinar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of molīnus:
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)
- Giuseppe Molinib. 1772FRpublisher, bookseller and librarian (1772-1856)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 504 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 267 | #29,065 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 227 | #78,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 223 | #89,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 219 | #85,357 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 74 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| 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
- What does the name Molini mean, and where does it come from?
- forma pl. de Molino Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Molini?
- A machine transcription gives /molini/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Molini have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 504 people named Molini, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molini.
- How common is the name Molini?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 504 people named Molini, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moliniThe 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, “Molini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.