Given name & surname
Murillo
“hill”
Murillo is a surname from Spanish. It is used in Spanish and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Murillo goes back to Spanish Murillo, meaning “hill.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Spanish Murillo, built from Basque muino (“hill”) + Spanish -illo.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Murillo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 122 as a first name in 2020; 45,567 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.
Murillo’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Murillo as a surname has a related form in MORILLO. In Cebuano usage, Murillo as a surname has a related form in MORILLO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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