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The Mollet surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 820 people carried this name — #28,967 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 9% from 749 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Mollet surname

Most prevalent in Nord department.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mollet» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 2,145 people named Mollet.

10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 72 départements, most often Nord.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 10
Nord 565
Paris 219
Pas-de-Calais 155
Seine-Maritime 111
Aisne 89
Somme 88
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 68
Nièvre 55

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

595 people named Mollet live in Switzerland.

They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Bern 190
Solothurn 160
Zurich 72
Aargau 37
Vaud 36
Basel-Landschaft 18
Lucerne 17
St. Gallen 15

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 259 people named Mollet live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Hainaut 89
West Flanders 69
East Flanders 61
Namur 15
Brussels-Capital 12
Antwerp 8
Luxembourg Province 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Mollet,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Claude Mollet
    Claude Mollet 1557–1650 · writer
  • Claude Mollet
    Claude Mollet 1557–1649 · writer
  • Claude Mollet
    Claude Mollet 1563–1650 · writer
  • Claude Mollet
    Claude Mollet 1563–1649 · writer
  • Claude Mollet
    Claude Mollet 1564–1650 · writer
  • André-Armand Mollet d. 1719 · architect

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Mollet.

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