Peres

At the 2020 census, 3,202 Americans bore the surname Peres — 9,678th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 93,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,202
Rank: 9,678th
How common: 1 in 93,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese, from a patronymic

From Portuguese Peres.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Peres described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 67.1%
White, not Hispanic 29.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Peres

Shimon Peres (1923–2016)Israeli politician (1923–2016) –Former President of Israel (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996)
Vímara Peres (820–873)Count of Portugal
Bruno Peres (born 1990)Brazilian footballer
Marinho Peres (1947–2023)Brazilian footballer
Luan Peres Petroni (born 1994)Brazilian association football player
Fernando Peres (1943–2019)Portuguese footballer

People named Peres with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Peres

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.