Suarez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who looks after pigs; from Spanish Suarez, from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/swarɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suarez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 54(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 184
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 198
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #271 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 471 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54 (inferred from the name graph)
169,015 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
- SpanishSuarez(measured from records)
- LatinSuerius(measured from records)
person who looks after pigs; from Spanish Suarez, from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suarez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #26 | 169,015 | 1 in 269 | 169K | Suarez | 163 |
| CO Colombia | #23 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 291 | 119 | Suarez | 211 |
| VE Venezuela | #28 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | 1K | Suarez | 117 |
| ES Spain | #35 | 124,242 | 1 in 403 | 124K | Suarez | 229 |
| EC Ecuador | #12 | 92,019 | 1 in 184 | 92K | Suarez | 102 |
| UY Uruguay | #8 | 62,179 | 1 in 54 | 62K | Suarez | 104 |
169,015 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Suarez 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 English, Xavier Louis, US politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Francisco Suárezb. 1548ESSpanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian (1548-1617)
- Hugo Banzerb. 1926BOnot in their usual namePresident of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978 and 1997 to 2001
- Luis Suárezb. 1935ESSpanish association football player and manager (1935–2023)
- Luis Aragonésb. 1938ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football player and manager (1938–2014)
- Claudio Suárezb. 1968MXMexican footballer
- Paola Suárezb. 1976ARArgentine tennis player
- Luis Alberto Suárezb. 1987UYUruguayan association football player
- Blanca Suárezb. 1988ESSpanish actress
- Iscob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Denís Suárezb. 1994ESSpanish 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)
Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Suarez mean, and where does it come from?
- person who looks after pigs; from Spanish Suarez, from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Suarez?
- A machine transcription gives /swarɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Suarez have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 169 thousand people named Suarez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suarez.
- Where is Suarez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Suarez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 54 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Suarez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 169,015 people named Suarez, about 1 in 269 residents.
- How common is Suarez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Suarez is the 26th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suarezThe 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, “Suarez” — the 26th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.