Molina (surname)

Molina is a Spanish occupational surname. Molina is latin for 'mill' and is derived from another latin word, mola ('millstone'). The surname originated from the early Middle Ages, referring to a person who operates a mill or a millstone.[1] Other Spanish surnames, like Molinero (literally: 'miller'), have also originated in the work and management of a mill. Spanish municipalities like Molina de Segura (Murcia) or Molina de Aragón (Castilla-La Mancha) still nowadays include millstones or mill blades in their respective coats of arms (cf. coat of arms of Molina de Segura and Coats of arms of Molina de Aragón).

A bloodline of Molinas, in the Christian Kingdom of Castile, originated from ennoblement when Manrique Pérez de Lara, of the House of Lara, in April 1154 issued a fuero to the town of Molina, nowadays called Molina de Aragón.[2]

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  • Dafne Molina (born 1982), Mexican beauty pageant titleholder
  • Delfina Molina y Vedia (1879–1961), Argentine chemist, writer, teacher, painter, and singer
  • Keann Davic Molina

(born 2006), Artist and UnOfficial Mayor of Bulakan

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  • Gerardo Molina (1906–1991), Colombian writer, politician, and academic
  • Gloria Molina (born 1948), American politician, chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
  • Gustavo Molina (born 1982), Venezuelan baseball player

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  • Hector Garcia-Molina (contemporary), American engineering professor, member of the Board of Directors of Oracle Corporation
  • Hilda Molina (born 1942), Cuban neurosurgeon and dissident
  • Hugo Antonio Laviada Molina, a Mexican politician

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  1. p. 164 in Gutierre Tibón, Diccionario etimológico comparado de los apellidos españoles, hispanoamericanos y filipinos ('Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Spanish, Hispanic American and Filipino Surnames'), Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, February 1995 as a reprint of 2nd Edition from 1992 (1st Edition: 1988, Editorial Diana); 434 pp., ISBN 968-16-3714-3
  2. "Molina" surname datasheet in the official genealogical and heraldic «Andalucía GenWeb» website, from «Darrax Cultura y Comunicación», Málaga, Andalusia. (in Spanish)
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