Molles

surname · Latin script

Meaning: feminine plural of mou

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/moʎes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Molles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • UYUruguay1 in 109K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2M
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

163 people, 2010

Record sources
88 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

feminine plural of mou

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Molles 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 Molles is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1631 in 2M163Molles18
BR Brazil421 in 5M42——
UY Uruguay311 in 109K31——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——

163 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Uruguay, Mexico

    Also written Mollès, Mölles

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Molleš, Mollès

  • Norwegian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Mollès

27 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)

Molles is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, plural of molla (“crumb; soft part of something”)

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

  • In nrm, feminine plural of mo (“soft”)

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

  • In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine plural of mollis

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

  • In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of mollar

    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)

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)
FormalDear Molles,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Molles
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010163#108,734
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000158#104,819
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020156#117,879
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—42#118,404
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—31—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2#16,108
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Molles mean, and where does it come from?
feminine plural of mou Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Molles?
In Spanish /moʎes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Molles have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 163 people named Molles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled molles.
Where is Molles most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Molles is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Molles?
In the United States, the national register counted 163 people named Molles in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million 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, “Molles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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