as a Last Name
- 2,769
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Melillo
Meaning & Origins
Southern Italian: 1. from a pet form of Meli. 2. from the Neapolitan dialect word melillo ‘crab apple’, hence a nickname, possibly for someone with a sour disposition, a topographic name, or a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of apples. 3. possibly a regularized form of Melilli, a habitational name from a place so named in Siracusa, Sicily.
| 11,356th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,769
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Melillo per capita
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