Soares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who looks after pigs; from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/soaɾis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 185
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #362 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 170 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person who looks after pigs; from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soares 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 | #20 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 185 | 555 | Soares | 263 |
| PT Portugal | #26 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | — | Soares | 195 |
| AO Angola | #28 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 4 | Soares | 48 |
| US United States | — | 11,694 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Soares | 360 |
| FR France | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 1K | Soares | 7 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 847 | 21K | — | 13 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 3.5K | — | 15 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; This page provides an overview of the most common surnames in São Tomé and Príncipe, compiled from official sources incl; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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)
Soares is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘son of Sore’; from a medieval nickname for a red-haired person.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Portuguese, inflection of soar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Soeiro
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In vo, dative plural of soar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, portugalski političar, obnovitelj portugalske demokracije; sekretar Socijalističke stranke (1973—1980), predsjednik vlade (1976—1978) i (1983—1985), predsjednik Republike (1986—1996)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Lopo Soares de Albergariab. 1442PTthird Governor of Portuguese India
- Mário Soaresb. 1924PTPresident of Portugal (1924–2017)
- Florinda Bolkanb. 1941BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress (born 1941)
- Carlos Carvalhalb. 1965PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player and manager
- Ricardob. 1976PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer and coach
- Lincolnb. 1979BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 1979)
- Renato Augustob. 1988BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1988)
- Cédric Soaresb. 1991PTPortuguese association football player
- Everton Sousa Soaresb. 1996BRBrazilian association football player
- Douglas Luizb. 1998BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 555 | #13,431 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 469 | #6,419 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 291 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 252 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 249 | #19,477 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 192 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 134 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 91 | #23,818 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 86 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 60 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 58 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #19,477 |
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 Soares mean, and where does it come from?
- person who looks after pigs; from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Soares?
- A machine transcription gives /soaɾis/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Soares have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Soares in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soares.
- How common is the name Soares?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,694 people named Soares in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Soares compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Soares is the 20th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Soares?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soaresThe 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, “Soares” — the 20th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.