Rareș
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rareș is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 30K
- ISIceland1 in 50K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rares in RO Romania, DE Germany, IT Italy and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rareș 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #361 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Rares | 93 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 190K | 3 | Rares | 22 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 472K | listed | Rares | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 539K | — | Rares | 1 |
| MD Moldova | — | 112 | 1 in 30K | 112 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Rares | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 53 | 1 in 111K | 53 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 7 | 1 in 50K | 7 | — | — |
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: the de-munich-vornamen register; e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Petru Rareșb. 1487ROvoievod of Moldavia
- Elena Ecaterina Rareşb. 1490ROMoldavian princess consort, Serbian despina
- Ilie II Rareșb. 1531SYPrince of Moldavia
- Rareș Mănescub. 1969RORomanian politician (b. 1969)
- Rareș Bogdanb. 1974RORomanian politician
- Rareș-Lucian Niculescub. 1976RORomanian politician
- Rareș Dumitrescub. 1983RORomanian sabre fencer
- Rareș Lazărb. 1999RORomanian association football player
- Rareș Marișb. 2000RORomanian singer and actor
- Rareș Ilieb. 2003RORomanian association 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2017 | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2016 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Rareș have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Rareș in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rares.
- How common is the name Rareș?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 112 people named Rareș, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Rareș compared with other names?
- In Romania, Rareș is the 361st most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rareș?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rare%C8%99The 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, “Rareș” — the 361st most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.