# Pires (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pires/  
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 Portuguese.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Portuguese |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 5,746 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,986 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 53,732 people |
| Change since 2000 | +21% (4,733 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Pires.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pires 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) | 72% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 15% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 6.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 3.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pires in Brazil and Portugal.

## People named Pires

- Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
- Cleo Pires, Brazilian actress, singer, producer and writer
- Sandra Pires, Brazilian volleyball player
- Felipe Pires, Brazilian association football player
- Alexandre Pires, Brazilian singer
- Lucas Pires, Brazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Waldir Pires, Brazilian lawyer and politician, former governor of the state of Bahia (1926–2018)
- Rui Pires, association football player
- Diogo Pires, Brazilian footballer
- José Sebastião Pires Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Romário Pires, Brazilian footballer
- Nicolas Prattes, Brazilian actor

## Similar surnames

Peres, Press, Parise, Preuss, Preiss, Pries, Piers, Phares, Perez, Price, Pierce, Park.

## 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.