Morreale
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Monreale, a habitational name from Monreale near Palermo, Sicily, so named from monte regale ‘regal mountain’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mɔˈɹiɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morreale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 155K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 157K
- ITItaly≈1 in 24K
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)
- Record sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Monreale, a habitational name from Monreale near Palermo, Sicily, so named from monte regale ‘regal mountain’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Morreale 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Morreale | 51 |
| US United States | 2,149 | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Morreale | 266 |
| BE Belgium | 479 | 1 in 24K | 520 | Morreale | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Morreale | 54 |
| CA Canada | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Morreale | 51 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Morreale | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Morreale | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Margherita Morrealeb. 1922ITItalian hispanist (1922-2012)
- Gabriella Morrealeb. 1930ESItalian-Spanish scientist and chemist (1930-2017)
- Héctor Escobar Morrealeb. 1963ESSpanish medical researcher
- Mike Morrealeb. 1971CACanadian football player
- Emiliano Morrealeb. 1973ITItalian journalist
- Christie Morrealeb. 1977BEBelgian politician
- Marta Morrealeb. 2001ITItalian association football player
- Marilù MorrealeITItalian singer
- Giacomo MorrealeGBresearcher
- Marco Morrealeresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7061-9103
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #14,026 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 520 | #2,919 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 479 | #3,184 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- 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 Morreale mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Monreale, a habitational name from Monreale near Palermo, Sicily, so named from monte regale ‘regal mountain’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morreale?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔˈɹiɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morreale have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Morreale in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morreale.
- How common is the name Morreale?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,149 people named Morreale in 2010, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morrealeThe 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, “Morreale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.