Morëno
surname · Latin script
Morëno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From moro (“Moor”) + -eno.
- ESSpain1 in 154(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 158
- COColombia≈1 in 186
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #136 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 504 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154 (inferred from the name graph)
324,435 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moreno in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 3 more.
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)
From moro (“Moor”) + -eno.
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morëno 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #15 | 324,435 | 1 in 154 | 324K | Moreno | 289 |
| CO Colombia | #15 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | 179 | Moreno | 223 |
| US United States | #155 | 196,925 | 1 in 1.7K | 197K | Moreno | 504 |
| VE Venezuela | #19 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 158 | — | Moreno | 134 |
| AR Argentina | #41 | 121,531 | 1 in 374 | 122K | Moreno | 148 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 54,971 | 1 in 308 | 55K | Moreno | 106 |
324,435 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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 Morëno mean, and where does it come from?
- From moro (“Moor”) + -eno. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Morëno have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 324 thousand people named Morëno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moreno.
- Where is Morëno most common?
- Morëno is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 154 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Morëno?
- In Spain, the national register counted 324,435 people named Morëno, about 1 in 154 residents.
- How common is Morëno compared with other names?
- In Spain, Morëno is the 15th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Morëno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mor%C3%ABnoThe 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, “Morëno” — the 15th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.