Moules
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mulz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moules is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Herts, Essex, and Middx. see Moles . name Maud or Matilda. See under Malt , Mould , and Moll (1).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 226K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
- IEIreland≈1 in 167K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Herts, Essex, and Middx. see Moles . name Maud or Matilda. See under Malt , Mould , and Moll (1).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moules 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Moules | 90 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 152 | Moules | 83 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 632K | 7 | Moules | 87 |
| AU Australia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Moules | 32 |
| CA Canada | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 662K | — | Moules | 27 |
| IE Ireland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Moules | 11 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Moules | 1 |
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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brad MoulesEnglish rugby league footballer
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152 | #108,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 141 | #127,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 141 | #122,314 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Moules mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Herts, Essex, and Middx. see Moles . name Maud or Matilda. See under Malt , Mould , and Moll (1). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Moules?
- A machine transcription gives /mulz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moules have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 291 people named Moules in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moules.
- How common is the name Moules?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Moules in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moulesThe 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, “Moules”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.