Juarez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Spanish Juarez, a different form of Suarez, from Latin Suerius, literally “swineherd” (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/xwaɾes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Juarez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- MXMexico≈1 in 220(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 220
- ARArgentina1 in 337
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #354 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216 (inferred from the name graph)
≈580,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Juarez
- Spanish:/xwaɾes/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- SpanishJuarez(measured from records)
- LatinSuerius(measured from records)
From Spanish Juarez, a different form of Suarez, from Latin Suerius, literally “swineherd”.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Juarez is found
(measured from records)Juarez counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #35 | ≈580,000 est. | ≈1 in 224 | 11K | Juarez | 239 |
| AR Argentina | #48 | 134,892 | 1 in 337 | 135K | Juarez | 129 |
| US United States | — | 101,949 | 1 in 3.3K | 102K | Juarez | 407 |
| GT Guatemala | #3 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 216 | — | Juarez | 88 |
| PE Peru | #97 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 724 | — | Juarez | 94 |
| SV El Salvador | #82 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 417 | 15K | Juarez | 50 |
| NI Nicaragua | #84 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 604 | — | Juarez | 40 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Juarez is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative form of warez.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Benito, Mexican political leader
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, town, Mexico
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
regional variant of Suarez (see Suarez).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Frank Shamrockb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican mixed martial artist
- Freddy Juarezb. 1978USAmerican soccer player
- Efraín Juárezb. 1988MXMexican former footballer and coach
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Juarez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Juarez, a different form of Suarez, from Latin Suerius, literally “swineherd”. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Juarez?
- In Spanish /xwaɾes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Juarez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 584 thousand people named Juarez in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juarez. After it come Argentina, United States, Guatemala and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Juarez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 134,892 people named Juarez, about 1 in 337 residents.
- How common is Juarez compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Juarez is the 35th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juarezThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Juarez” — ranked 30th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.