Caceres
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Spain, whose name apparently derives, via Arabic AlCazires, from L castra Cereris ‘town of Ceres', the Roman goddess of agricultural prosperity, who had a tem¬ ple there
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kasɛrɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caceres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 124(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 359
- ARArgentina1 in 393
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #698 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 124 (inferred from the name graph)
115,747 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cáceres in ES Spain and Càceres in UY Uruguay.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spain, whose name apparently derives, via Arabic AlCazires, from L castra Cereris ‘town of Ceres', the Roman goddess of agricultural prosperity, who had a tem¬ ple there. Caban(ne); Chaban(n)e(s) (Limoges, Auvergne); Chavan(n)e(s) (Poitou); Cabanes, Cabanais; Cabanie, Chabanier. Chebanier. Vars.:
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caceres counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #58 | 115,747 | 1 in 393 | 116K | Caceres | 130 |
| PY Paraguay | #16 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 124 | — | Caceres | 76 |
| PE Peru | #88 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 669 | — | Caceres | 118 |
| HN Honduras | #40 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | — | Caceres | 61 |
| ES Spain | #230 | 21,211 | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Cáceres | 156 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 15,005 | 1 in 226 | 15K | Càceres | 59 |
115,747 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Caceres is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, prov & town, Spain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Catalan, plural of cacera
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abraham Caceresb. 1701NLcomposer
- Emilio Caceresb. 1897USAmerican jazz violinist
- Kurt Caceresb. 1972USAmerican actor
- Adrian Caceresb. 1982ARAustralian soccer player
- Alejandro Caceresb. 1986USAmerican hacker and cybersecurity entrepreneur
- Raphaël Cacérèsb. 1987FRFrench footballer
- Alex Caceresb. 1988USAmerican martial artist
- Antony Caceresb. 2000CACanadian soccer player
- Oliver Caceresb. 2008PYParaguayan basketball player
- Carla E. CáceresUSAmerican population ecologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 116K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21K | #253 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21K | #253 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 15K | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Caceres mean, and where does it come from?
- Spain, whose name apparently derives, via Arabic AlCazires, from L castra Cereris ‘town of Ceres', the Roman goddess of agricultural prosperity, who had a tem¬ ple there. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Caceres?
- A machine transcription gives /kasɛrɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Caceres have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 116 thousand people named Caceres, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caceres.
- How common is the name Caceres?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 115,747 people named Caceres, about 1 in 393 residents.
- How common is Caceres compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Caceres is the 58th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caceresThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caceres” — the 58th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.