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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from any of numerous minor places named with Latin mola ‘mill’, ‘millstone’.
  • Catalan and Aragonese : habitational name from any of various places named Mola in Catalonia and Aragon, in particular the one in Teruel province (Aragon), from Latin mola ‘mill’, ‘millstone’.
  • Greek (Molas) : see Mula.

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