Mercado
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from mercado ‘market’, topographic name for someone living by a market or metonymic occupational name for a market trader
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/meɾkado/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mercado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 269(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 811
- ARArgentina1 in 855
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #826 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 269 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from mercado ‘market’, topographic name for someone living by a market or metonymic occupational name for a market trader.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mercado 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #64 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 811 | — | Mercado | 134 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Mercado | 21 |
| US United States | — | 60,761 | 1 in 5.5K | 62K | Mercado | 432 |
| AR Argentina | #130 | 53,220 | 1 in 855 | 53K | Mercado | 114 |
| CO Colombia | #165 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 25 | Mercado | 138 |
| BO Bolivia | #1000 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | — | Mercado | 78 |
| NI Nicaragua | #27 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 269 | — | Mercado | 49 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mercado | 31 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Mercado is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, market
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
saved from death
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Portuguese, market; marketplace (open area in a town housing a public market)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, most associated with several people:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-opt, marketplace (open area in a town housing a public market)
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)
- José Rizalb. 1861PHnot in their usual nameFilipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
- Walter Mercadob. 1932USPuerto Rican astrologer (1932–2019)
- Arturo Mercadob. 1940MXMexican actor
- Sergio Ramírezb. 1942NInot in their usual nameNicaraguan writer and politician
- Rosendo Mercadob. 1954ESSpanish rock musician
- Cristian Mercadob. 1974BOBolivian theater and film actor
- Jaime Bassab. 1977CLnot in their usual nameChilean lawyer
- Edemir Rodríguezb. 1984BOnot in their usual nameBolivian footballer
- Gabriel Mercadob. 1987ARArgentine association football player
- Jennylyn Mercadob. 1987PHFilipino actress
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 62K | #533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 61K | #555 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 53K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 46K | #674 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 25 | #91 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Mercado mean, and where does it come from?
- from mercado ‘market’, topographic name for someone living by a market or metonymic occupational name for a market trader. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mercado?
- A machine transcription gives /meɾkado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Mercado?
- In the etymology graph, Mercader is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mercado have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 thousand people named Mercado in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mercado.
- How common is the name Mercado?
- In the United States, the national register counted 60,761 people named Mercado in 2010, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Mercado compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Mercado is the 64th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mercadoThe 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, “Mercado” — the 64th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.