Mellor

surname · Latin script

Meaning: person from Mellor, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire; 'bare hill'

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

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

Mellor 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.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 139as Melo
  • DKDenmark1 in 203as Møller

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 Mellor 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)

1,522,803 named Melo

#241 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MeloLatin(measured from records)
МелоCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜελοGreek(measured from records)
เมลโลThai(measured from records)
멜로Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melo in BR Brazil, CO Colombia, PT Portugal and 1 more, Møller in DK Denmark, GL Greenland 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)

person from Mellor, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire; 'bare hill'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mellor 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 Mellor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#171,522,803as Melo1 in 1391.5MMelo253
DE Germany#62≈52,000 est.≈1 in 1.5KlistedMöller157
CO Colombia#178≈37,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K32Melo155
DK Denmark#1428,916as Møller1 in 20329KMøller140
PT Portugal#45≈21,000 est.≈1 in 493—Melo161
GB United Kingdom#474≈7,800 est.≈1 in 8.4KlistedMellor255
UY Uruguay#766,842as Melo1 in 4956.8KMelo52
GL Greenland#1877as Møller1 in 66877Møller13

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); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mellor is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Меллор

38 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)

Mellor 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 English, from Mellor, Lancashire; first attested Richard de Meluer 1246 AssLa

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, habitational name from places in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient British words that are ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare’ + bre ‘hill’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Latin, first-person singular present passive indicative of mellō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, comparative degree of bo: better

    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)

190019502000William C. Mellor, b. 1903Fleur Mellor, b. 1936D. H. Mellor, b. 1938David Mellor, b. 1949Ian Mellor, b. 1950Joe Strummer, b. 1952Will Mellor, b. 1976Neil Mellor, b. 1982Kelvin Mellor, b. 1991D'Mani Mellor, b. 2000
  • William C. Mellorb. 1903USAmerican cinematographer (1903-1963)
  • Fleur Mellorb. 1936AUAustralian sprinter
  • D. H. Mellorb. 1938GBBritish philosopher (1938–2020)
  • David Mellorb. 1949GBformer British politician, non-practising barrister, broadcaster, journalist and businessman (born 1949)
  • Ian Mellorb. 1950GBEnglish footballer (1950-2024)
  • Joe Strummerb. 1952GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer, musician and songwriter (1952–2002)
  • Will Mellorb. 1976GBEnglish actor
  • Neil Mellorb. 1982GBEnglish association football player
  • Kelvin Mellorb. 1991GBEnglish footballer (born 1991)
  • D'Mani Mellorb. 2000GBEnglish association football player (born 2000)

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)

FormalDear Mellor,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Mellor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—20#194,891
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—17#26,673
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Mellor mean, and where does it come from?
person from Mellor, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire; 'bare hill' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Mellor?
A machine transcription gives /mɛlə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Mellor 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.
How common is the name Mellor?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,522,803 people named Melo, about 1 in 139 residents.
How common is Mellor compared with other names?
In Brazil, Mellor is the 17th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mellor” — the 17th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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