Mulero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: muleteer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/muˈle.ɾo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Mulero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 2.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 12K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 130Kfew records
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,114 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)muleteer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mulero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #948 | 4,114 | 1 in 12K | 4.1K | Mulero | 108 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 1 | Mulero | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #158 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Mulero | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,015 | 1 in 328K | 1.1K | Mulero | 127 |
| FR France | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 211K | 39 | Mulero | 116 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mulero | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Mulero | 6 |
4,114 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Mulero 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 Basque, ( V-gip ap. Elexp Berg ). Mulero.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Antonio Mulero Guerrerob. 1904ESSpanish, dead in Nazi concentration camp
- Antonio Ros Mulerob. 1957ESSpanish mathematician
- Oscar Mulerob. 1971ESSpanish DJ and producer
- Ezequiel Martínez MuleroESSpanish politician
- Margarita Mulero-PázmányESresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0303-9360
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.1K | #1,271 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.1K | #1,271 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,007 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 707 | #31,053 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 25 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mulero mean, and where does it come from?
- muleteer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mulero?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /muˈle.ɾo/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /mulɛɾɔ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mulero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Mulero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mulero.
- How common is the name Mulero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,114 people named Mulero, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Mulero compared with other names?
- In Spain, Mulero is the 948th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muleroThe 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, “Mulero” — the 948th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.