Caires
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kajɾeʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caires is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 7.3K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 35K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
29,003 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caires 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 | #426 | 29,003 | 1 in 7.3K | 29K | Caires | 131 |
| PT Portugal | #385 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Caires | 74 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Caires | 22 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | Caires | 9 |
| US United States | — | 518 | 1 in 642K | 563 | Caires | 97 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Caires | 21 |
29,003 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Lutgarda Guimarães de Cairesb. 1858PTPortuguese writer, poet, suffragist
- Raimundo Cairesb. 1947BRBrazilian pharmacist and politician, mayor of the municipality of Paulo Afonso, Bahia
- Ivo Nelson de Caires Batista Rosab. 1966PTPortuguese magistrate
- Duarte Cairesb. 1967GBbadminton player
- Carlos Cairesb. 1972PTbadminton player
- Roberto Cairesb. 1973PTbadminton player
- Bruno Cairesb. 1976PTPortuguese footballer
- Yahenda Joaquim Caires Fernandesb. 1978AOAngolan footballer
- Roberta Cairesb. 1983BRBrazilian politician, councilor of the city of Salvador
- Iolanda CairesPTresearcher
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29K | #625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 563 | #41,648 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 518 | #41,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 500 | #41,130 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #153 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Caires?
- A machine transcription gives /kajɾeʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Caires have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Caires, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caires.
- How common is the name Caires?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 29,003 people named Caires, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Caires compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Caires is the 426th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cairesThe 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, “Caires” — the 426th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.