Given name & surname · also Italian
Mello
Mello is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Portuguese. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mello comes from Italian, and ultimately from Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mello through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 88
- 78 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #6,332 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,332 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 185 as a first name in 2020; 11,016 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mello’s family of names
In Greek usage, Mello as a surname is a transliteration of Μέλλο.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mello
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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