Melô
surname · Latin script
Melô is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,522,803 people, counted by IBGE, which ranks it 34th. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of numerous places named with Portuguese merlo ‘blackbird’ (Latin merulus). Melô is also written Мело in Cyrillic, Μελο in Greek and เมลโล in Thai.
- BRBrazil1 in 139(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 390
- UYUruguay1 in 495
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 Melô 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)
- #241 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- 1 in 139 (inferred from the name graph)
1,522,803 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Melô in other scripts: Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Melo in BR Brazil, CO Colombia, PT Portugal and 2 more, Møller in DK Denmark, GL Greenland and Möller in DE Germany.
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)habitational name from any of numerous places named with Portuguese merlo ‘blackbird’ (Latin merulus).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Melô is found
(measured from records)Melô 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #17 | 1,522,803 | 1 in 139 | 1.5M | Melo | 253 |
| DE Germany | #62 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Möller | 157 |
| CO Colombia | #178 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 32 | Melo | 155 |
| AO Angola | #53 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Melo | 38 |
| DK Denmark | #14 | 28,916as Møller | 1 in 203 | 29K | Møller | 140 |
| PT Portugal | #45 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | — | Melo | 161 |
| UY Uruguay | #76 | 6,842 | 1 in 495 | 6.8K | Melo | 52 |
| GL Greenland | #1 | 877as Møller | 1 in 66 | 877 | Møller | 13 |
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 co-datosgov-candidates register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Melô mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous places named with Portuguese merlo ‘blackbird’ (Latin merulus). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Melô?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Melô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melo. After it come Germany, Colombia, Angola and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Melô most common?
- Melô is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 139 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Melô?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,522,803 people named Melô, about 1 in 139 residents.
- How common is Melô compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Melô is the 17th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%B4The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Melô” — ranked 34th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.