Mulato
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Capsicum annuum, a chili pepper related to the poblano and usually sold dried
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mulato/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mulato is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 7.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 29K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 51K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,729 people
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Capsicum annuum, a chili pepper related to the poblano and usually sold dried.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mulato 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2,729 | 1 in 78K | 2.7K | Mulato | 51 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Mulato | 25 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Mulato | 14 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 2 | Mulato | 42 |
| SV El Salvador | #465 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Mulato | 20 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Mulato | 10 |
| MT Malta | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Mulato | 1 |
2,729 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. 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)
Mulato is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, mulatto (a person of mixed black and white descent)
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)
- Darlenys Obregónb. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian sprint athlete
- Harrinson Mancillab. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- José Mulatob. 2003COColombian footballer
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #3,721 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Mulato mean, and where does it come from?
- Capsicum annuum, a chili pepper related to the poblano and usually sold dried. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mulato?
- A machine transcription gives /mulato/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mulato have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Mulato, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mulato.
- How common is the name Mulato?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,729 people named Mulato, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Mulato compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Mulato is the 465th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mulatoThe 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, “Mulato” — the 465th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.