Nares
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from AFr neir ‘black’; first attested Simon le Neir 1221 AssGl
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nares is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- PHPhilippines
- COColombia
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from AFr neir ‘black’; first attested Simon le Neir 1221 AssGl
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nares counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | 32 | Nares | 87 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | Nares | 20 |
| IN India | — | 75 | Nares | 5 |
| US United States | — | 547 | Nares | 85 |
| BR Brazil | — | 83 | Nares | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 128 | Nares | 29 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | Nares | 15 |
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 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Nares is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of nāris
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mcm, nose
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)
- James Naresb. 1715GBEnglish composer
- George Naresb. 1716GBEnglish barrister, judge, and politician
- Edward Naresb. 1762GBBritish historian and theologian
- George Naresb. 1831GBBritish naval officer and Arctic explorer (1831-1915)
- Owen Naresb. 1888GBactor (1888-1943)
- Anthony Naresb. 1942CH(1942-1996)
- James Naresb. 1953GBBritish born artist living and working in New York City since 1974 (born 1953)
- Moodyb. 2001ESnot in their usual namerapper, singer, songwriter, and producer
- William Henry NaresBritish Royal Navy officer, commander in 1814
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Nares mean, and where does it come from?
- from AFr neir ‘black’; first attested Simon le Neir 1221 AssGl Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Nares a male or female name?
- Nares is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nares have the most bearers?
- Nares is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled nares.
What do you want to know about Nares?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naresThe 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, “Nares”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.