Möller

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as an occupation

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/mœlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Möller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.5K
  • BRBrazil1 in 139as Melo

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Möller itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,522,803 named Melo

#241 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MeloLatin(measured from records)
МелоCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜελοGreek(measured from records)
เมลโลThai(measured from records)
멜로Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melo in BR Brazil, CO Colombia, PT Portugal and 1 more and Møller in DK Denmark, GL Greenland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname originating as an occupation

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Möller counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Möller is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#171,522,803as Melo1 in 1391.5MMelo253
DE Germany#62≈52,000 est.≈1 in 1.5KlistedMöller157
CO Colombia#178≈37,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K32Melo155
DK Denmark#1428,916as Møller1 in 20329KMøller140
PT Portugal#45≈21,000 est.≈1 in 493—Melo161
SE Sweden#2177,9211 in 1.3K7.9KMöller50
UY Uruguay#766,842as Melo1 in 4956.8KMelo52
GL Greenland#1877as Møller1 in 66877Møller13

1,522,803 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the dfa-band-1 register; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Möller is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Moller, Móller, Mollêr, Mőller, Môller

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, New Zealand, South Africa

    Also written Moller, Mōller

  • Russian surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Меллер, Моллер, Мёллер, Moeller, Meller

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Möller is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Berufsname zu 'Müller'; Schreibvariante mit ö. Die Karte demonstriert Haupttonvokalismus mit o/u bzw. ö/ü. 31881 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Aus lat. molinae/molinarius; nord-/regionalen Lautentwicklung und Umlaut. Belegt 31881 Träger. Die Karte zeigt die Vokalvarianz ü/ö/i in Müller-Namen; hier die ö-Variante.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Vokalvariante zu Müller/Mühle mit ö-Schreibung; Karte zeigt die Verbreitung dieser ö-Form. 31.881 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Morphologische Doppelnamen-Bildung: als Erst- oder Zweitglied in [X]-Möller und Möller-[X].

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, Beispiel für Umlaut-/Umlauteinfluss in der Schreibvarianz; 31881 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Hermann Möller, b. 1850Gunnar Möller, b. 1928Irmgard Möller, b. 1947Ralf Moeller, b. 1959Silke Möller, b. 1964Andreas Möller, b. 1967Frank Möller, b. 1970Erik Möller, b. 1979David Möller, b. 1982Gustav Möller, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Möller, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Möller
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7.9K#110
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—144#3,733
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Möller mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as an occupation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Möller?
A machine transcription gives /mœlɐ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Möller have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Melo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Möller most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Möller is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Möller?
In Sweden, the national register counted 7,921 people named Möller, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Möller compared with other names?
In Brazil, Möller is the 17th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Möller” — the 17th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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