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’

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

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

Murillo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 116(measured from records)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 208
  • 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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈65,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
390 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MurilloLatin(measured from records)
МурильоCyrillic(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’.

Sources 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 in the world(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.

Where Murillo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#97≈65,000 est.≈1 in 75741Murillo166
EC Ecuador#3646,0461 in 36746KMurillo84
US United States—45,5581 in 7.3K46KMurillo390
HN Honduras#15≈44,000 est.≈1 in 208—Murillo71
CR Costa Rica#2743,9091 in 11644KMurillo136
NI Nicaragua#75≈11,000 est.≈1 in 543—Murillo42

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: 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Murillo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Mürïllö, Mürillö, Murillo', Můřìľľő, Murïllo

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Muríllo, Mürïllö, Múrílló

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Murïllô, Mürillo, Mürillö, Murillö, Mùrïlló

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Muríllo

  • Lao surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written มูริโย, Mürillö, Mürïllö, มรโย

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Мурильо, Mürïllö, Mürillö

49 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.

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)

160017001800190020002100Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, b. 1617Pedro Domingo Murillo, b. 1757Rosario Murillo, b. 1951Luis Marín, b. 1974Edwin Congo, b. 1976Óscar Murillo, b. 1988Jeison Murillo, b. 1992Jhon Murillo, b. 1995Michael Amir Murillo, b. 1996Juan Cabal, b. 2001

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 Murillo,Dear Murillo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Murillo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 50 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Murillo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202446K#72
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—46K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202046K#743
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201046K#757
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—44K#43
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200032K#995
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024456—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—41#75
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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

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?
A machine transcription gives /muɾiʝo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Murillo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Murillo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murillo.
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 Colombia 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 Colombia, Murillo is the 97th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Murillo” — the 97th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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