Marelli

surname · Latin script

Meaning: 1. from a pet form of Mare

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/maɾeʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Marelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 20K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 58K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,100 people, est.

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

1. from a pet form of Mare. 2. from a pet form of the Greek personal name Mavros ‘black’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marelli 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.

Where Marelli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈3,100 est.≈1 in 20K—Marelli34
AR Argentina1,4371 in 32K1.4KMarelli52
US United States2721 in 1.2M311Marelli37
BR Brazil2311 in 917K231Marelli41
FR France≈210 est.≈1 in 331K24—1
CH Switzerland1441 in 58K144—4
UY Uruguay451 in 75K45Marelli9
GD Grenada11 in 113K1——

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marelli is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lao surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Marel, Marrel, มาเริล, มาเรล, มาเรลี

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Giovanni Tommaso Maria Marelli, b. 1673Luigi Maria Marelli, b. 1858Ercole Marelli, b. 1867Michele Marelli, b. 1897Giulio Marelli, b. 1907Aldo Marelli, b. 1919Sergio Marelli, b. 1926Roberto Marelli, b. 1937Luca Marelli, b. 1972Michele Marelli, b. 1978

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)

FormalEstimado/a Marelli,Dear Marelli, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Marelli,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Marelli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020311#68,212
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000300#62,396
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010272#71,678
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—231#32,624
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024144#8,225
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—45—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196123—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Where does the name Marelli come from?
1. from a pet form of Mare. 2. from a pet form of the Greek personal name Mavros ‘black’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Marelli?
A machine transcription gives /maɾeʎi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Marelli mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. from a pet form of Mare.
In which country does Marelli have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Marelli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marelli.
How common is the name Marelli?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,437 people named Marelli, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.

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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, “Marelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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