Cares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of care
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaɾes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 57K
- BRBrazil1 in 114K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular simple present indicative of care
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cares 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #417 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 1 | Cares | 70 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,856 | 1 in 114K | 1.9K | Cares | 54 |
| AR Argentina | — | 793 | 1 in 57K | 793 | Cares | 35 |
| US United States | — | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 257 | Cares | 30 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Cares | 5 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 512K | — | Cares | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | — | 3 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Cares 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 French, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of carer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of careō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, first-person singular preterite colloquial of caru
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine plural of car
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, plural of cara
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)
- Marcela Saidb. 1972CLnot in their usual nameChilean film director
- Pablo Alarcónb. 1988CLnot in their usual nameChilean cyclist
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,249 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 793 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 257 | #79,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 193 | #89,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 178 | #101,247 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,883 |
| 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
- What does the name Cares mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of care Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cares?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cares have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Cares in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cares.
- How common is the name Cares?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,856 people named Cares, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
- How common is Cares compared with other names?
- In Chile, Cares is the 417th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caresThe 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, “Cares” — the 417th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.