Family name origins & meanings
- French, Channel Islands, and English : from a pet form of the personal name Moll, a pet form of Mary (see Maria).
- French : topographic name for someone who lived in a muddy or boggy place, from a diminutive of mol ‘marsh’, ‘bog’ (see Molle).
- Catalan : habitational name from any of various places named Mollet, especially in the provinces of Barcelona and Girona.