# Linares (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/linares/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,688 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,820 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 15,682 people |
| Change since 2000 | +54% (12,799 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /lɪˈnɑːɹɛs/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Linarez |

## Etymology

From Spanish Linares, from linares (“flax fields”). For places outside Spain, derived from Spanish cities or from Spanish nobles bearing the name in their primary titles. As a surname mostly found in Venezuela, variously derived from all these sources.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Linares in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 5.5% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 93% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.2% |

## Similar surnames

Lammers, Lonergan, Lamoureux, Lamoreaux, Lamarche, Lamarca, Lamers.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.