Mijares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place named Mijares, in particular the one in Avila province, named from the plural of mijar ‘millet field’, from mijo ‘millet’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/miˈxa.ɾes/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Mijares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.6K
- MXMexico≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from a place named Mijares, in particular the one in Avila province, named from the plural of mijar ‘millet field’, from mijo ‘millet’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Mijares is found
(measured from records)Mijares 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #255 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mijares | 73 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Mijares | 66 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 101 | Mijares | 148 |
| US United States | — | 3,259 | 1 in 102K | 3.3K | Mijares | 235 |
| ES Spain | — | 882 | 1 in 57K | 882 | Mijares | 89 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Mijares | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 113 | 1 in 30K | 113 | — | 6 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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)Mijares is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a toponymic surname originating in Cantabria, but mostly found in Venezuela and the Philippines
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Mijares, mostly concentrated in Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Rizal, Oriental Mindoro and Aurora provinces
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Mijares, mostly found in Negros Oriental
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of mijar:
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)- Rafael Mijares Alcérrecab. 1924MXMexican artist (1924-2015)
- Manuel Mijaresb. 1958MXMexican actor and singer
- José Mijaresb. 1984VEMajor League Baseball pitcher free agent
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mijares mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place named Mijares, in particular the one in Avila province, named from the plural of mijar ‘millet field’, from mijo ‘millet’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mijares?
- In Spanish /miˈxa.ɾes/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mijares?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Mijares in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mijares. After it come Philippines, Mexico, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mijares?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,259 people named Mijares in 2010, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Mijares compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Mijares is the 255th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mijaresThe 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, “Mijares” — the 255th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.