The surname Veres
A Hungarian surname, carried by 1,796 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex V620
Origin
Hungarian origin
# From Hungarian Veres or Romanian Vereș, both from Hungarian veres (“red”). # From Ukrainian Верес (Veres), from Ukrainian верес (veres, “heather”), from Proto-Slavic *versъ (“heather”).
One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,796 people named Veres in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,907 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,619.
Who is named Veres
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Veres identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.5%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Veres has the Soundex code V620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V620.
Other Hungarian surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Veres come from?
- # From Hungarian Veres or Romanian Vereș, both from Hungarian veres (“red”). # From Ukrainian Верес (Veres), from Ukrainian верес (veres, “heather”), from Proto-Slavic *versъ (“heather”).
- How common is the surname Veres?
- 1,796 people in the United States had the surname Veres in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,907 Americans. It ranked 16,120th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Veres?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Veres identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Veres getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,619 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,796 in 2010, up 11%.