Mellado
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mellado is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain. Recorded meaning: nickname from mellado ‘nicked’, for someone who missed one or more teeth, from mellar ‘to nick’.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
nickname from mellado ‘nicked’, for someone who missed one or more teeth, from mellar ‘to nick’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mellado counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 10K | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 3.4K | — |
| US United States | — | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 265 | — |
| MX Mexico | — | 172 | — |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)
Mellado 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 Spanish, from the Sp. adj. mellado (past. part, of mellar to chip, of uncertain, probably pre-Roman, origin).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, chipped, nicked
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)
- Manuel Gutiérrez Melladob. 1912ESSpanish general and politician (1912–1995)
- Elena María Tejeirob. 1939ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Mateo Mellado Garcíab. 1942MXMexican politician
- Isabel García Mellado unb. 1977ESSpanish writer
- Gaby Melladob. 1992MXMexican television actress
- Miguel Melladob. 1993ARArgentinian association football player
- Abel Mellado SánchezESSpanish politician
- Joaquín BuendíaESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Maria del Carmen GilESnot in their usual nameVillaverde crece
- Francisco Jose Toajas MelladoESSpanish politician
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #550 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #550 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,881 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 952 | #26,922 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 749 | #29,662 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 265 | #29,248 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 172 | #1,304 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mellado mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from mellado ‘nicked’, for someone who missed one or more teeth, from mellar ‘to nick’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mellado have the most bearers?
- Mellado is most frequently recorded in Spain.
What do you want to know about Mellado?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melladoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mellado”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.