The Murillo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 45,558 people carried this name — #757 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 6,480 people counted. That is up 43% from 31,964 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Murillo surname
From Basque muino (“hill”) + Spanish -illo (Spanish diminutive suffix).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Murillo» (Spanish), 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 4,956 people named Murillo 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 194 people named Murillo.
97 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
173 people named Murillo live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 print
Murillo in American newspapers,
1838–1925.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 16,622 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Murillo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617–1682 · painter -
Pedro Domingo Murillo 1757–1810 · lawyer -
Josefa Murillo y Bravo de Vela 1831– · singer -
Adolfo Murillo 1840–1899 · physician -
Lino Murillo 1852–1932 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 172 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Murillo.
- Murcia 2,563 · U.S. census
- Mure 287 · U.S. census
- Murer 231 · U.S. census
- Murgia 389 · U.S. census
- Murie 362 · U.S. census
- Muriel 1,778 · U.S. census
- Murin 465 · U.S. census
- Muro 7,916 · U.S. census
- Murphy 308,417 · U.S. census
- Murray 184,910 · U.S. census
- Mury 177 · U.S. census
- Mus 131 · U.S. census
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