Pires

6,112 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pires in the 2020 census, making it the 5,493rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 48,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,112
Rank: 5,493rd
How common: 1 in 48,900
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Borrowed from Portuguese Pires.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.8%
Black, not Hispanic 19.4%
Hispanic or Latino 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Pires

Robert Pires (born 1973)French footballer
Pedro Pires (born 1934)Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
Glória Pires (born 1963)Brazilian actress
Maria João Pires (born 1944)Portuguese pianist
Tomé Pires (1465–1540)Portuguese apothecary and diplomat
Cléo Pires (born 1982)Brazilian actress
Sandra Pires (born 1973)Brazilian volleyball player
José Maria Pires (1919–2017)Catholic archbishop

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

Surnames like Pires

Pirtle

Try it on yourself

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.