Casares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular future subjunctive of casar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kasaɾes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Casares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 9.7K
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,135 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
second-person singular future subjunctive of casar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Casares 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #802 | 5,135 | 1 in 9.7K | 5.1K | Casares | 136 |
| US United States | — | 4,309 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Casares | 230 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,207 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | Casares | 92 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Casares | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | #301 | 834 | 1 in 6.1K | 834 | Casares | 29 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 257 | 1 in 13K | 257 | Casares | 22 |
5,135 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Casares is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, second-person singular pluperfect indicative of casar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, second-person singular preterite indicative of casar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of casar:
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)
- Santiago Casares Quirogab. 1884ESSpanish politician (1884-1950)
- Adolfo Bioy Casaresb. 1914ARArgentine novelist (1914-1999)
- María Casaresb. 1922ESFrench actress of Spanish origin (1923-1996)
- Ana Casaresb. 1930ARactress
- Carlos Casaresb. 1941ESGalician author and politician (1941–2002)
- Luis Gámir Casaresb. 1942ESSpanish politician and economist (1942–2017)
- Nicolás González Casaresb. 1972ESSpanish politician
- Wences Casaresb. 1974ARArgentine businessman
- Marilia Andrésb. 1974ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Susana Casares Domingob. 1979ESfilm director (born 1979)
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.1K | #1,034 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.1K | #1,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.3K | #7,702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,545 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.2K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 834 | #506 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 257 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Casares mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular future subjunctive of casar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Casares?
- A machine transcription gives /kasaɾes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Casares have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Casares, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled casares.
- Where is Casares most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Casares is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 6.1 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Casares?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,135 people named Casares, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Casares compared with other names?
- In Spain, Casares is the 802nd most common surname of 395,154 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/casaresThe 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, “Casares” — the 802nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.