Squires
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Squire’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/skʷajəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Squires is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 24K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Squires itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
14,045 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘son of Squire’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Squires 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 14,045 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Squires | 13 |
| GY Guyana | 111 | 1 in 6.8K | 111 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 103as Squire | 1 in 442K | 103 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 58 | 1 in 862K | 58 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30as Squire | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2 | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | — |
14,045 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Squiresb. 1880CAPrime Minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932
- Ernest Squiresb. 1882GBBritish Army general
- Dorothy Squiresb. 1915GBBritish singer
- Arthur Squiresb. 1916USchemical engineer and college professor
- Barry Squiresb. 1931GBfootballer (1931-2017)
- Roger Squiresb. 1932GBBritish crossword compiler
- Mike Squiresb. 1952USAmerican baseball player
- Scott Squiresb. 1956visual effects supervisor
- Jamie Squiresb. 1975GBEnglish footballer (born 1975)
- Hayley Squiresb. 1988GBEnglish actress and playwright
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,631 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 111 | #514 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 58 | #40,502 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 58 | #40,001 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 2 | #260 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Squires mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Squire’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Squires?
- A machine transcription gives /skʷajəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Squires have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Squires, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled squires.
- Where is Squires most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Squires is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Squires?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,045 people named Squires in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Squires?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/squiresThe 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, “Squires”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.