Môller

surname · Latin script

Môller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: occupational name for a miller. See also Moeller. In the form Moller, this name is established from the Netherlands to Poland.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.5K
  • BRBrazil1 in 139as Melo

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Môller itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,522,803 named Melo

#241 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MeloLatin(measured from records)
МелоCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜελοGreek(measured from records)
เมลโลThai(measured from records)
멜로Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melo in BR Brazil, CO Colombia, PT Portugal and 1 more, Möller in DE Germany, SE Sweden and Møller in DK Denmark, GL Greenland.

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)

occupational name for a miller. See also Moeller. In the form Moller, this name is established from the Netherlands to Poland. It is also found in Sweden (Mdller), where it is of either German or Danish origin, and in Norway, where it is of Danish origin.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Môller 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 Môller is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#171,522,803as Melo1 in 1391.5MMelo253
DE Germany#62≈52,000 est.≈1 in 1.5KlistedMöller157
CO Colombia#178≈37,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K32Melo155
DK Denmark#1428,916as Møller1 in 20329KMøller140
PT Portugal#45≈21,000 est.≈1 in 493—Melo161
SE Sweden#2177,9211 in 1.3K7.9KMöller50
UY Uruguay#766,842as Melo1 in 4956.8KMelo52
GL Greenland#1877as Møller1 in 66877Møller13

1,522,803 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Môller under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Môller mean, and where does it come from?
occupational name for a miller. See also Moeller. In the form Moller, this name is established from the Netherlands to Poland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Môller have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Melo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Môller most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Môller is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Môller?
In Sweden, the national register counted 7,921 people named Môller, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Môller compared with other names?
In Brazil, Môller is the 17th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Môller” — the 17th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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