Given name
Murilo
Murilo is a masculine given name from Spanish. It is used in Italian and Portuguese.
Original SpanishMurillo
Meaning & origin
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 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Murilo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 98
- 98 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,353 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,353 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 428 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Murilo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Murilo was borrowed from the Spanish form MURILLO.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Murilo
- Murilo de AlmeidaEast Timorese association football playerborn 1989
- Murilo BenícioBrazilian actor (born 1971)
- Murilo EndresBrazilian volleyball playerborn 1981
- Murilo CerqueiraBrazilian association football playerborn 1997
- Murilo Ramos KriegerArchbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and primate of Brazilborn 1943
- Murilo FischerBrazilian cyclistborn 1979
- Murilo MendesBrazilian writer (1901–1975)
- Murilo RosaBrazilian actorborn 1970
- Murilo BustamanteBrazilian mixed martial artistborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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