Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Mares

    A surname, carried by 14,931 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M620

    Mares: #2,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Mares #2,427, 14,931 people Mares: #2,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mares #2,427, 14,931 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mares is more common than 98.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 14,931 people named Mares in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 20,678 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,041.

    #2,427
    rank among US surnames
    14,931
    people in 2010
    5.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +24%
    change since 2000 (was #2,751)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,418Gannon14,98120,609
    #2,419Meek14,97020,624
    #2,420Puente14,96620,630
    #2,421Bail14,95720,642
    #2,422Isaacs14,95120,650
    #2,423Brower14,95020,652
    #2,424Yazzie14,94920,653

    Who is named Mares

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    83% of people named Mares identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 16% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 83%
    • White (not Hispanic) 16%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • Two or more races 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Mares

    Mares has the Soundex code M620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mares?
    14,931 people in the United States had the surname Mares in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 20,678 Americans. It ranked 2,427th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mares?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Mares identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 16% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mares getting more or less common?
    More common. 12,041 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,931 in 2010, up 24%.