Molloy

Molloy is the 4,891st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,992 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 42,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,992
Rank: 4,891st
How common: 1 in 42,700
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maolmhuaidh (“descendant of Maolmhuadh”), a personal name composed of maol (“chieftain”) + muadh (“noble, big”). It could also be an Anglicized form of Ó Maolmhaodhóg (“descendant of the servant of (Saint) Maodhóg”); compare Logue.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Molloy

Isobelle Molloy (born 2000)English child actress

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

Surnames like Molloy

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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.