Meglio

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a personal name derived from Latin melior ‘better’, or from a shortened form of Amelio

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 214K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 24K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 95K

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)

≈2,600 people, est.

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a personal name derived from Latin melior ‘better’, or from a shortened form of Amelio.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meglio 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 Meglio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈2,600 est.≈1 in 24KlistedMeglio18
FR France≈720 est.≈1 in 95K15—1
US United States3761 in 885K401Meglio46
AR Argentina2131 in 214K213Meglio45
BR Brazil301 in 7.1M30Meglio13
PA Panama≈5 est.≈1 in 721K—Meglio2

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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Meglio is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Méglio

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Canada

    Also written Méglio, Mèglio

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Meglìo, Meglïo, Méglio, Mèglìo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Méglio

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy

    Also written Mègliò

29 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)

Meglio 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 Italian, better, (the) best

    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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Meglio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020401#55,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010376#54,752
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000333#57,252
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—213—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—30#148,949
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19418—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19817—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19517—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19217—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

What does the name Meglio mean, and where does it come from?
from a personal name derived from Latin melior ‘better’, or from a shortened form of Amelio. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Meglio?
In the etymology graph, Migliore is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Meglio?
A machine transcription gives /meɣljo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Meglio have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Meglio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meglio.
How common is the name Meglio?
In the United States, the national register counted 376 people named Meglio in 2010, about 1 in 885 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, “Meglio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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