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molla Name Meaning and History

  1. Muslim: status name for someone with a qualification in Islamic religious learning, from Persian mulla, a derivative of Arabic maula, maulwi ‘scholar’ (usually transcribed in English as mullah).
  2. Ethiopian: unexplained.
  3. Catalan: from a feminine form of Moll.
  4. Catalan (Mollà): variant spelling of the habitational name from any of the several places called Mollar in Catalonia and Valencia.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of molla Families in the US in 1920
Number of molla families
 8-14
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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