Meares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who lives in a border area or by a boundary line, or by a pond
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmiɹz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meares is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person who lives in a border area or by a boundary line, or by a pond
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Meares 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 Irish, Woulfe treats this as synonymous with the Thomond name (O) Meere. Mears, however, is best known in Dublin and the midland counties where it is of English origin, as are the variants Mair, Mairs and Mayers found in Ulster
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Latin, second-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of meō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, second-person singular future subjunctive of mear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive singular of mearh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of mear:
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)
- John Mearesb. 1756IEBritish navigator, explorer and fur trader
- Richard Goldsmith Mearesb. 1780AUAustralian police officer
- George Mearesb. 1825Mayor of Melbourne
- Frank Mearesb. 1873AUAustralian cricketer (1873-1952)
- Cecil Mearesb. 1877IEBritish explorer
- Mary Emma Goldsmith Mearesb. 1889AU(1889-1964) welfare worker
- Leycester Mearesb. 1909AUAustralian judge (1909-1994)
- Jodhi Mearesb. 1972AUAustralian fashion designer
- Kerrie Mearesb. 1982AUAustralian racing cyclist
- Anna Mearesb. 1983AUAustralian 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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,667 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 35 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #172,823 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Meares mean, and where does it come from?
- person who lives in a border area or by a boundary line, or by a pond Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Meares?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmiɹz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meares have the most bearers?
- Meares is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mearesThe 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, “Meares”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.