# Soares (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/soares/  
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) | 11,694 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,069 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 26,402 people |
| Change since 2000 | +21% (9,633 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Soares.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Soares 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) | 74% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 8.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 4.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Soares in Brazil, the United States, Guinea-Bissau and Italy.

## People named Soares

- Everton Sousa Soares, Brazilian association football player (born 1996)
- Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
- Elza Soares, Brazilian musician (1930–2022)
- Sérgio Soares, Brazilian association football player and manager
- Carlos Eduardo Soares, Brazilian association football player
- Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian and writer
- Francisco Soares, Brazilian association football player
- Marcelo Soares, Brazilian association football player
- Eydison Teofilo Soares, Brazilian association football player
- Henrique Soares da Costa, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop
- Zé Soares, Brazilian footballer
- Danilo Soares, Brazilian association football player

and 19 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Sears, Sauers, Sours, Sires, Sowers, Sayers, Shores, Shears, Sorge, Suarez, Schwarz, Scruggs.

## 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.