Murillo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: habitational name from any of several places called Murillo, notably in Navarre, Logrono, and Zaragoza provinces, so named from a diminutive of muro ‘wall’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/muˈɾi.ʃo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Murillo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 15th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 116(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 180
- ECEcuador1 in 367
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- 1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)habitational name from any of several places called Murillo, notably in Navarre, Logrono, and Zaragoza provinces, so named from a diminutive of muro ‘wall’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Murillo is read
(measured from records)Murillo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish72%
habitational name from any of several places called Murillo, notably in Navarre, Logrono, and Zaragoza provinces, so named from a diminutive of muro ‘wall’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English15%
Bartolome Esteban, Spanish painter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Murillo is found
(measured from records)Murillo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #163 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1.9K | Murillo | 216 |
| CO Colombia | #97 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 546 | 41 | Murillo | 166 |
| HN Honduras | #15 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | — | Murillo | 71 |
| EC Ecuador | #36 | 46,046 | 1 in 367 | 46K | Murillo | 84 |
| US United States | — | 45,558 | 1 in 7.3K | 46K | Murillo | 390 |
| CR Costa Rica | #27 | 43,909 | 1 in 116 | 44K | Murillo | 136 |
| NI Nicaragua | #75 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | — | Murillo | 42 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Murillo 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 Croatian, španjolski barokni slikar, slikao Madone, seviljske ulične dječake, skitnice, prosjake ( Dječaci jedu voće )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Bartolomé Esteban Murillob. 1617ESSpanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
- Rosario Murillob. 1951NIco-president of Nicaragua since 2025
- Jeison Murillob. 1992COColombian association football player
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Murillo mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several places called Murillo, notably in Navarre, Logrono, and Zaragoza provinces, so named from a diminutive of muro ‘wall’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Murillo?
- In Spanish /muˈɾi.ʃo/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Murillo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Murillo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murillo. After it come Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Murillo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Murillo is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 116 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Murillo?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 46,046 people named Murillo in 2024, about 1 in 367 residents.
- How common is Murillo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Murillo is the 163rd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/murilloThe 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, “Murillo” — the 163rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.