Placeres
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of placer (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/plaθeɾes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Placeres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 28K
- ESSpain1 in 51K
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)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Placeres
- Spanish:/plaθeɾes/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)plural of placer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Placeres is found
(measured from records)Placeres 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 | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Placeres | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | #598 | 1,003 | 1 in 3.4K | 1K | Placeres | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 985 | 1 in 51K | 985 | Placeres | 65 |
| US United States | — | 644 | 1 in 517K | 646 | Placeres | 123 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 394K | 13 | Placeres | 48 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Placeres | 11 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Placeres | 13 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)Placeres 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, second-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of placeō
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)- Aurelio Ortega y Placeresb. 1865MXMexican educator
- Pedro Tanausú Domínguez Placeresb. 1990ESSpanish footballer
- Arisleyda Placeresb. 1998ESSpanish association football player
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Placeres mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of placer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Placeres?
- In Spanish /plaθeɾes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Placeres?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Placeres in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled placeres. After it come Uruguay, Spain, United States and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Placeres most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Placeres is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Placeres?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 1,003 people named Placeres, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Placeres compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Placeres is the 598th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/placeresThe 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, “Placeres” — the 598th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.