Marmolejo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place called Marmolejo in Jaen province (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/maɾmolexo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Marmolejo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 7.8K
- UYUruguay1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Marmolejo
- Spanish:/maɾmolexo/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from a place called Marmolejo in Jaen province.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Marmolejo is found
(measured from records)Marmolejo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #664 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 381 | Marmolejo | 146 |
| CO Colombia | #756 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 1 | Marmolejo | 87 |
| US United States | — | 5,221 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Marmolejo | 247 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,512 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Marmolejo | 80 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Marmolejo | 37 |
| PY Paraguay | #728 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Marmolejo | 12 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 6 | — | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 171 | 1 in 20K | 171 | — | 13 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alonso de Góngora Marmolejob. 1523ESSpanish conquistador and chroniclre
- Nelson Díazb. 1942UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer (1942–2018)
- Darwin Andradeb. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian 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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marmolejo mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place called Marmolejo in Jaen province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marmolejo?
- In Spanish /maɾmolexo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marmolejo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Marmolejo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marmolejo. After it come Colombia, United States, Spain and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Marmolejo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,221 people named Marmolejo in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Marmolejo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Marmolejo is the 664th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marmolejoThe 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, “Marmolejo” — ranked 791st in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.