Mércado
surname · Latin script
Mércado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish, from mercado.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 269(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 811
- ARArgentina1 in 855
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #826 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 269 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mercado in AR Argentina, US United States, PH Philippines and 5 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)
Borrowed from Spanish, from mercado.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mércado 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #64 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 811 | — | Mercado | 134 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Mercado | 21 |
| US United States | — | 60,761 | 1 in 5.5K | 62K | Mercado | 432 |
| AR Argentina | #130 | 53,220 | 1 in 855 | 53K | Mercado | 114 |
| CO Colombia | #165 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 25 | Mercado | 138 |
| BO Bolivia | #1000 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | — | Mercado | 78 |
| NI Nicaragua | #27 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 269 | — | Mercado | 49 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mercado | 31 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 Mércado mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish, from mercado. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Mércado have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 thousand people named Mércado in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mercado.
- How common is the name Mércado?
- In the United States, the national register counted 60,761 people named Mércado in 2010, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Mércado compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Mércado is the 64th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9rcadoThe 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, “Mércado” — the 64th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.