Mello or Melo is a Portuguese surname. It indicates a place name, likely derived from a town or village called Melo, in Portugal. The countries with the highest number are Brazil, Portugal and the United States. [1]
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Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, received the majority of Portuguese immigrants and is the country with the largest number of people with the surname. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Mello is a surname that was first found in Ile-de-France, at Mellun. The first records of the name was Robert of Melun (c. 1100–1167), an English-born, scholastic Christian theologian. [6]
The Mello surname can also be of Italian, Dutch, and or Belgian origins due to migration. In some families, the Portuguese surname Melo has evolved into Mello, due to migration and differing transcriptions. [7]
