Mollo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Fire

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Mollo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 990(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 10K
  • ARArgentina1 in 11K

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.

Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 990 (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Fire.

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mollo 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 Mollo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BO Bolivia#69≈12,000 est.≈1 in 990—Mollo44
ZA South Africa—≈4,400 est.≈1 in 13K—Mollo15
AR Argentina—4,1221 in 11K4.1KMollo63
PE Peru—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 10K—Mollo41
IT Italy—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 23KlistedMollo37
CL Chile—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 18K—Mollo49

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); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mòllō, Mőľľő, Molló

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Molló

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Molló

44 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)

Mollo 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, wet, damp, saturated, soaked

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

  • In French, softly, gently

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

  • In Galician, bundle

    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)

190019201940196019802000Victor Mollo, b. 1909Enrico Mollo, b. 1913Ann Mollo, b. 1933Andrew Mollo, b. 1940Pierre Mollo, b. 1948Fabio Mollo, b. 1980Mike Mollo, b. 1980Georgina Mollo, b. 1983

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)

FormalEstimado/a Mollo,Dear Mollo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Mollo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Mollo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—4.1K—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 4

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 Mollo mean, and where does it come from?
Fire. Recorded by The African book of names.
How do you pronounce Mollo?
A machine transcription gives /mollo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Mollo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Mollo in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mollo.
How common is the name Mollo?
In Argentina, the national register counted 4,122 people named Mollo, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Mollo compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Mollo is the 69th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mollo” — the 69th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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