Møller
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mølər/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Møller 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: From møller (“miller”). Cognate with English Miller, German Müller, Low Saxon Möller.
- DKDenmark1 in 203(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 139as Melo
- PTPortugal≈1 in 493as 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 Møller 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)
- #241 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66 (inferred from the name graph)
1,522,803 named Melo
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Melo in BR Brazil, CO Colombia, PT Portugal and 1 more and Möller in DE Germany.
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)
From møller (“miller”). Cognate with English Miller, German Müller, Low Saxon Möller.
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Møller 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #17 | 1,522,803as Melo | 1 in 139 | 1.5M | Melo | 253 |
| DE Germany | #62 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Möller | 157 |
| CO Colombia | #178 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 32 | Melo | 155 |
| DK Denmark | #14 | 28,916 | 1 in 203 | 29K | Møller | 140 |
| PT Portugal | #45 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 493 | — | Melo | 161 |
| UY Uruguay | #76 | 6,842as Melo | 1 in 495 | 6.8K | Melo | 52 |
| GL Greenland | #1 | 877 | 1 in 66 | 877 | Møller | 13 |
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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Møller is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, a miller (a person who owns or operates a mill)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of mølle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Poul Martin Møllerb. 1794DKDanish academic and poet (1794–1838)
- Hermann Möllerb. 1850DKnot in their usual nameDanish linguist (1850-1923)
- Arnold Peter Møllerb. 1876DKDanish businessman (1876–1965)
- John Christmas Møllerb. 1894DKDanish politician (1894-1948)
- Alex Möllerb. 1903DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1903-1985)
- Christian Møllerb. 1904DKDanish scientist (1904–1980)
- Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møllerb. 1913DKDanish shipping magnate (1913–2012)
- Per Stig Møllerb. 1942DKDanish politician
- Roland Møllerb. 1972DKDanish actor
- Peter Møllerb. 1972DKDanish footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29K | #19 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2012 | 941 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2011 | 935 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2016 | 913 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2013 | 909 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2015 | 908 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2014 | 903 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2018 | 899 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2019 | 889 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2021 | 877 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2020 | 871 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2017 | 864 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Møller mean, and where does it come from?
- From møller (“miller”). Cognate with English Miller, German Müller, Low Saxon Möller. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Møller?
- A machine transcription gives /mølər/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Møller 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 Møller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Møller is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 66 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Møller?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 28,916 people named Møller, about 1 in 203 residents.
- How common is Møller compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Møller is the 17th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Møller?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B8llerThe 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, “Møller” — the 17th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.