Molina
#14,369 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Molina has been given to 228 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #14,369 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Molina, 2025
1 in 553,000
Molina over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Molina?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,369
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Molina sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Molina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Molinas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Molina was born before 1997 — so the typical Molina is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 23.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 228
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Molina rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,571
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 28.6%
- Peak was 1971 (21)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.7% average annual change
Spellings of Molina
Molina is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 29.2% against Molina's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Molina is used
Across 1910–2025, Molina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Molina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Molina around the world
Where Molina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2003–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Molina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Molina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Molina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.