Mällo

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Mällo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from a place called Mallo in Lleon province.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 18K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 18K

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)

2,821 people

Record sources
9 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mallo in ES Spain, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

habitational name from a place called Mallo in Lleon province. Northwest Spain (probably from mallo ‘threshing flail’, ‘mallet’, or, alternatively, though less likely, from a preRoman territorial name).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mällo 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.

Where Mällo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,8211 in 18K2.8KMallo4
AR Argentina1,2021 in 38K1.2K——
US United States8971 in 371K908Mallo8
UY Uruguay8111 in 4.2K811——
IN India1781 in 7.4M178—5
EE Estonia≈67 est.≈1 in 18K91Mällo9
CH Switzerland621 in 136K62—1

2,821 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the ee-stat-nimed register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mällo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mallo, Malloe, Mallö, Mallò, Malló

  • Spanish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Philippines, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Polish

    Also written Mallo, Malló, Mallò, Malĺo

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Malló, Mallo

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Mallo, Mallò, Malló

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Mallo

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000August Mällo, b. 1881Udo Mällo, b. 1922Tanel Mällo, b. 1980
  • August Mällob. 1881EEEstonian photographer (1881-?)
  • Udo Mällob. 1922CAEstonian-Canadian entrepreneur (1922-2014)
  • Tanel Mällob. 1980EEEstonian psychologist and personal data researcher (born 1980)

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Mällo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—91#862
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—74#1,183

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 Mällo mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from a place called Mallo in Lleon province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mällo have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Mällo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mallo.
Where is Mällo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mällo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mällo?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,821 people named Mällo, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

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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, “Mällo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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