Soares
surname · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soares is a surname, most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is the 19th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: person who looks after pigs; from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'.
- STSão Tomé & Príncipe1 in 13◐
- GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 80
- BRBrazil1 in 114
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- #217 ●
- Sources
- 329 ●
- 1 in 2.6K ◐
across 15 countries
of 21M surnames
810K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Meaning & origin●
person who looks after pigs; from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #19 | 6,074,316 | 711K rec. | — | 555 | Soares | 255 |
| PT Portugal | #26 | 47,095 | 18K rec. | — | — | Soares | 180 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #27 | 20,852 | 30 rec. | — | 21K | Soares | 14 |
| US United States | — | 11,694 | 48K rec. | 1 in 28K | 12K | Soares | 329 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,141 | 4K rec. | — | — | Soares | 126 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | #2 | 3,594 | 6 rec. | — | 3.5K | Soares | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,263△ | 889 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 3.3K | Soares | 77 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,935 | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 17K | 2.9K | Soares | 103 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 2,832 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Soares | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | #363 | 2,353 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Soares | 32 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,182 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Soares | 109 |
| TL Timor-Leste | #1 | 1,848 | 84 rec. | — | — | Soares | 21 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese6.2M96%
- English68K1%
- French57K1%
- Spanish32K1%
- ptbr16K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 6,209,360 | 96% |
| English | 68,325 | 1% |
| French | 56,796 | 1% |
| Spanish | 32,134 | 1% |
| ptbr | 16,286 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Soares is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘son of Sore’; from a medieval nickname for a red-haired person.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Portuguese, inflection of soar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Soeiro
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In vo, dative plural of soar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, portugalski političar, obnovitelj portugalske demokracije; sekretar Socijalističke stranke (1973—1980), predsjednik vlade (1976—1978) i (1983—1985), predsjednik Republike (1986—1996)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 3 |
| 1901 | 2 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1921 | 33 |
| 1931 | 74 |
| 1941 | 57 |
| 1951 | 79 |
| 1961 | 413 |
| 1971 | 1,337 |
| 1981 | 1,065 |
| 1991 | 1,047 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Lopo Soares de Albergariab. 1442PTthird Governor of Portuguese India
- Mário Soaresb. 1924PTPresident of Portugal (1924–2017)
- Florinda Bolkanb. 1941BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress (born 1941)
- Carlos Carvalhalb. 1965PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player and manager
- Ricardob. 1976PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer and coach
- Lincolnb. 1979BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 1979)
- Renato Augustob. 1988BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1988)
- Cédric Soaresb. 1991PTPortuguese association football player
- Everton Sousa Soaresb. 1996BRBrazilian association football player
- Douglas Luizb. 1998BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Soares?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Soares (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Soares have the most bearers?
- Soares is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled soares.
- How common is Soares compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Soares is the 19th most common surname of 444,951 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Soares mean?
- Recorded meaning: person who looks after pigs; from Latin Suerius, literally 'swineherd'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Soares” — the 19th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.