# Mercado (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mercado/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 60,761 |
| US rank (2010) | 555 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 5,081 people |
| Change since 2000 | +31% (46,437 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Mercado, from mercado (“market”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mercado in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 5.2% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 87% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 6.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mercado in Argentina and the United States.

## People named Mercado

- Gabriel Mercado, Argentine association football player
- Melinda Mercado, American soccer player

## Similar surnames

Morgado, Mercedes, Merced, Mercadante, Marston, Marcotte, Marsden, Markowitz, Marchetti, Morrissette, Marquette, Margiotta.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.