Lares

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: probably a topographic name from Estremadura, from the plural of lar ‘farm’. Compare Larez

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/laɾes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 16K
  • USUnited States1 in 88K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,300 people, est.

Sources
177 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

probably a topographic name from Estremadura, from the plural of lar ‘farm’. Compare Larez.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Lares is read(measured from records)

Lares is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish73%

    probably a topographic name from Estremadura, from the plural of lar ‘farm’. Compare Larez.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • English18%

    The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    river, department, France

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Roman household spirits

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    La Riege [Ariege]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lares 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.

Where Lares is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#688≈4,300 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Lares46
US United States—3,7731 in 88K3.8KLares177
AR Argentina—2,7601 in 16K2.8KLares54
BR Brazil—1,3501 in 157K1.4KLares54
GT Guatemala#718≈1,300 est.≈1 in 13K—Lares12
UY Uruguay—2921 in 12K292Lares12
PY Paraguay—≈190 est.≈1 in 38K—Lares9

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lares is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Larès

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Láres

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lares is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, Lares, the classical Roman gods of a place, particularly homes; household deity

    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)

1920194019601980Osmo Lares, b. 1926Chimango Lares, b. 1957Shelly Lares, b. 1971José Leonardo Morales, b. 1978

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)

FormalEstimado/a Lares,Dear Lares, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Lares,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Lares
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.8K#8,700
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.4K#9,307
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.8K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.4K#11,879
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#7,018
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—292—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Lares mean, and where does it come from?
probably a topographic name from Estremadura, from the plural of lar ‘farm’. Compare Larez. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Lares?
A machine transcription gives /laɾes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Lares have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Lares in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lares.
How common is the name Lares?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,773 people named Lares in 2010, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
How common is Lares compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Lares is the 688th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lares” — the 688th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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