The surname Linares
A Spanish surname, carried by 19,688 people in the United States.
Pronounced /lɪˈnɑːɹɛs/ 2 syllables Soundex L562
Origin
Spanish origin
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.
One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 19,688 people named Linares in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 15,682 Americans. That is up 54% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,799.
Who is named Linares
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Linares identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.5% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
- White (not Hispanic) 5.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- Two or more races 0.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.0%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Linarez
Linares has the Soundex code L562, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L562.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Linares come from?
- 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.
- How common is the surname Linares?
- 19,688 people in the United States had the surname Linares in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,682 Americans. It ranked 1,820th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Linares?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Linares identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.5% as white (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Linares?
- Linares is /lɪˈnɑːɹɛs/, 2 syllables.
- Is the surname Linares getting more or less common?
- More common. 12,799 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,688 in 2010, up 54%.
- What are other spellings of Linares?
- Linarez.