Pires
surname · Latin script
Meaning: saucer (small dish)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/piɾis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pires is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 282(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 358
- UYUruguay1 in 528as Pirez
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pires itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #942 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 310 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 282 (inferred from the name graph)
590,896 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
saucer (small dish)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pires 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #62 | 590,896 | 1 in 358 | 591K | Pires | 223 |
| PT Portugal | #28 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 282 | — | Pires | 182 |
| AO Angola | #50 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Pires | 37 |
| FR France | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 1.1K | Pires | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | #592 | 6,418as Pirez | 1 in 528 | 6.4K | Pires | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | #478 | 1,598 | 1 in 5.3K | 1.6K | Pires | 67 |
590,896 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pires 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 Spanish, second-person singular present subjunctive of pirar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Aitu mēsli
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Tomé Piresb. 1468PTPortuguese apothecary and diplomat
- Pedro Piresb. 1934CVCape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
- Maria João Piresb. 1944PTPortuguese pianist
- Mário Piresb. 1949GWPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
- Olívio Pires Pittab. 1954BRBrazilian association football player
- Glória Piresb. 1963BRBrazilian actress
- Robert Piresb. 1973FRFrench footballer (born 1973)
- Alexandre Piresb. 1976BRBrazilian singer
- Cléo Piresb. 1982BRBrazilian actress
- Rui Piresb. 1998PTassociation football player
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 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #59,447 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pires mean, and where does it come from?
- saucer (small dish) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pires?
- A machine transcription gives /piɾis/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Pires have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 591 thousand people named Pires, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pires.
- How common is the name Pires?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 590,896 people named Pires, about 1 in 358 residents.
- How common is Pires compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Pires is the 62nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piresThe 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, “Pires” — the 62nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.