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
/mɔrreale/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Morreale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 24K
- CACanada≈1 in 85Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 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 the surname Morreale is found
(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 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Morreale | 51 |
| US United States | 2,149 | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Morreale | 266 |
| CA Canada | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Morreale | 51 |
| BE Belgium | 479 | 1 in 24K | 520 | Morreale | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Morreale | 54 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Morreale | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | 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)- Gabriella Morrealeb. 1930ESItalian-Spanish scientist and chemist (1930-2017)
- Héctor Escobar Morrealeb. 1963ESSpanish medical researcher
- Christie Morrealeb. 1977BEBelgian 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /mɔrreale/; in Spanish /moreale/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Morreale?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Morreale in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morreale. After it come United States, Canada, Belgium and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
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.