Morillo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: andiron
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moɾiʎo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morillo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 519(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 526
- ECEcuador1 in 2.3K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 519 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
andiron
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morillo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #93 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 526 | — | Morillo | 88 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #58 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 519 | — | Morillo | 61 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Morillo | 55 |
| ES Spain | #371 | 12,904 | 1 in 3.9K | 13K | Morillo | 159 |
| EC Ecuador | #506 | 7,246 | 1 in 2.3K | 7.2K | Morillo | 55 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Morillo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, habitational name from Morillo de Monclus in Uesca province, from a diminutive of moro ‘Moor’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Pablo Morillob. 1775ESSpanish general
- Daniel Hernándezb. 1856PEnot in their usual namePeruvian artist (1856-1932)
- Luis María Hueteb. 1929ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Rafael Aguilarb. 1961ESnot in their usual nameSpanish water polo player and coach
- Liliana Rodríguezb. 1967VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan actress
- Erick Morillob. 1971USAmerican DJ and producer (1971–2020)
- Juan Morillob. 1983DODominican Republic baseball player
- Fernando Carrob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish athletics competitor
- María Pedrazab. 1996ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Erick Morillob. 2000PEPeruvian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Morillo mean, and where does it come from?
- andiron Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Morillo?
- A machine transcription gives /moɾiʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Morillo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Morillo in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morillo.
- How common is the name Morillo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 12,904 people named Morillo, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Morillo compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Morillo is the 93rd most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Morillo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morilloThe 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, “Morillo” — the 93rd most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.