Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian : possibly a nickname from Sicilian moddu ‘soft’, ‘delicate’.
- Catalan : habitational name from Molló in Girona province, or from Prats de Molló in northern Catalonia, east Pyrenees.
- Southern French (Occitan) : topographic name from a diminutive of Old French mol ‘soft’, ‘muddy’.