Melero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: seller of honey, Sp. melero (LL melldrius, an agent deriv
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Melero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 54K
- ARArgentina1 in 82K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
11,894 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
seller of honey, Sp. melero (LL melldrius, an agent deriv. of mel, gen. mellis, honey). rhos moor, heath. The Bret, and Ir. cogns. of the second element mean ‘hillock’, ‘promontory’, and this may also have been the sense here.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #400 | 11,894 | 1 in 4.2K | 12K | Melero | 155 |
| US United States | — | 1,627 | 1 in 204K | 1.6K | Melero | 169 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Melero | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 558 | 1 in 82K | 558 | Melero | 48 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Melero | 18 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Melero | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | — | 5 |
11,894 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Melero is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, occupational name for a collector or seller of honey, melero (Late Latin mellarius, an agent derivative of mel, genitive mellis, ‘honey’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, of honey, Sp. melero (LL mellarius, an agent deriv. of mel, gen. mellis, honey). Yorks., and Derbys., earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient Brit, words that are ancestors of W moel bare + bre hill_ Vars.: Mellors; Mellows (see also Mellis).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, honey-eating
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do lat. melarius; plantador/vendedor de maçãs
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Daniel Freixes i Melerob. 1946ESSpanish architect
- Carlos Melerob. 1948EScyclist
- Patricio Melerob. 1956CLChilean independent politician
- Ester Xargay i Melerob. 1960ESSpanish poet, writer and videoartist (1960–2024)
- José Miguel Antúnezb. 1967ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1967)
- Helena García Melerob. 1968ESSpanish journalist, professor and television presenter
- Tania Sánchez Melerob. 1979ESSpanish politician
- Victor Bisbalb. 1980USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican boxer
- Gonzalo Melerob. 1994ESSpanish footballer
- Juan Pedro Jiménez Melerob. 1996ESSpanish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #463 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,746 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #19,942 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 558 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 48 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Melero come from?
- seller of honey, Sp. melero (LL melldrius, an agent deriv. of mel, gen. mellis, honey). rhos moor, heath. The Bret, and Ir. cogns. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Melero mean?
- Recorded meaning: seller of honey, Sp. melero (LL melldrius, an agent deriv.
- In which country does Melero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Melero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melero.
- Where is Melero most common?
- Melero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Melero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,894 people named Melero, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Melero compared with other names?
- In Spain, Melero is the 400th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meleroThe 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, “Melero” — the 400th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.