The Mello surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,670 people carried this name — #3,076 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 25,300 people counted. That is up 4% from 11,263 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Mello surname
Borrowed from Italian and Portuguese Mello.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mello» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 913 people named Mello live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
72 people named Mello live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 56 people named Mello.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Morbihan.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
27 people named Mello is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Mello in American newspapers,
1893–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 25,021 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Mello,
with a public archive behind them.
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Alfredo Pinto Vieira de Melo 1863–1923 · judge
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Al Mello 1906–1993 · boxer -
Alaim Mello 1916– · politician -
Ingeborg Mello 1919–2009 · athlete -
Tranquilino Mello 1922–1999 · association football player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 148 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mello.
- Mellard 249 · U.S. census
- Melle 447 · U.S. census
- Melli 169 · U.S. census
- Mellin 1,020 · U.S. census
- Mellinger 3,818 · U.S. census
- Mellion 206 · U.S. census
- Mellon 4,628 · U.S. census
- Melloni 148 · U.S. census
- Melly 213 · U.S. census
- Melnyk 1,496 · U.S. census
- Melo 9,731 · U.S. census
- Melon 363 · U.S. census
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