Menares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular future subjunctive of menar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/menaɾes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Menares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 89Kas Menare
- SESweden≈1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Menares itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Menare in VE Venezuela.
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 menar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Menares 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 | #533 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Menares | 76 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Menare | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 91as Menare | 1 in 2.3M | 91 | Menares | 15 |
| AR Argentina | — | 61 | 1 in 746K | 61 | Menares | 23 |
| US United States | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | listed | Menares | 44 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Menares | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | Menares | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Menares 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 Catalan, second-person singular preterite indicative of menar
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 61 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,831 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Menares mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular future subjunctive of menar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Menares?
- In Spanish /menaɾes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Menares have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Menares in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menares.
- How common is the name Menares?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 61 people named Menares, about 1 in 746 thousand residents.
- How common is Menares compared with other names?
- In Chile, Menares is the 533rd most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Menares?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menaresThe 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, “Menares” — the 533rd most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.