Mello

At the 2020 census, 11,016 Americans bore the surname Mello — 3,200th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,100.

By the numbers

People: 11,016
Rank: 3,200th
How common: 1 in 27,100
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Italian and Portuguese Mello.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mello described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Hispanic or Latino 7.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mello

Fernando Collor de Mello (born 1949)President of Brazil from 1990 to 1992
Craig Mello (born 1960)American biologist
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987)Indian writer
Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948–2003)Brazilian UN diplomat and humanitarian aid officer
Ricardo Mello (born 1980)Brazilian tennis player
Sheila Mello (born 1978)Brazilian dancer, actress and model
Selton Mello (born 1972)Brazilian actor
Tamara Mello (born 1976)American actress

People named Mello with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.