Molina

Molina is the 316th most common surname in the United States, shared by 97,649 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,061.

By the numbers

People: 97,649
Rank: 316th
How common: 1 in 3,061
Per 100,000: 32.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

and both from Molina "of a mill", from mola "mill" + -ina. Compare Miller.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Molina described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 89.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Molina

Mario Molina (1943–2020)Mexican chemical engineer
Alfred Molina (born 1953)British actor
Tirso de Molina (1583–1648)Spanish writer (c. 1583-c.1648)
Nahuel Molina (born 1998)Argentine association football player
Otto Pérez Molina (born 1950)President of Guatemala
Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956)Spanish writer
Ángela Molina (born 1955)Spanish actress
Natalia de Molina (born 1990)Spanish actress

People named Molina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Molina

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.