Gares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: possibly an altered form of German Gorres, Gareis or Gareus, all reduced forms of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɑɹiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 855K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 30K
- FRFrance≈1 in 105K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
possibly an altered form of German Gorres, Gareis or Gareus, all reduced forms of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gares 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 47 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 389 | 1 in 855K | 413 | Gares | 150 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Gares | 20 |
| ES Spain | — | 196 | 1 in 255K | 196 | Gares | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 113 | 1 in 30K | 113 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Gares | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #444 | — | — | — | Gares | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Gares 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 German, strong/mixed nominative/accusative neuter singular of gar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive singular of gār
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of cares
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)
- Sgaresb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican electronic sports player
- Cindy Garesb. 1988UYUruguayan 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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 413 | #53,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 410 | #48,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 389 | #53,204 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 196 | #16,812 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 196 | #16,792 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 48 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gares mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly an altered form of German Gorres, Gareis or Gareus, all reduced forms of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gares?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑɹiz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gares have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 648 people named Gares in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gares most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gares is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gares?
- In the United States, the national register counted 389 people named Gares in 2010, about 1 in 855 thousand residents.
- How common is Gares compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Gares is the 444th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garesThe 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, “Gares” — the 444th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.