Molnar

At the 2020 census, 8,207 Americans bore the surname Molnar — 4,181st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,207
Rank: 4,181st
How common: 1 in 36,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

From Hungarian Molnár; from molnár (“miller”), also found in several Slavic languages. Sometimes Americanized from Dutch Molenaar.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Molnar

Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952)Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist
Pavol Molnár (1936–2021)Slovak footballer
Miklos Molnar (born 1970)Danish footballer
Ingo Molnár (born 2000)Linux kernel programmer
Tamás Molnár (born 1975)Hungarian water polo player
Vera Molnár (1924–2023)Hungarian artist
István Molnár (1913–1983)Hungarian water polo player
Dezső Molnár (born 1939)Hungarian footballer

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

Surnames like Molnar

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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.