Tavares

13,226 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tavares in the 2020 census, making it the 2,660th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,226
Rank: 2,660th
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

From Portuguese Tavares.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 48.6%
Hispanic or Latino 31.1%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Tavares

Nuno Tavares (born 2000)Portuguese association football player
Sara Tavares (1978–2023)Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Tavares (born 1990)Canadian ice hockey player
Edy Tavares (born 1992)Cape Verdean basketball player
Julio Tavares (born 1988)Cape Verdean association football player
Carlos Tavares (born 1958)Portuguese businessman
Mickaël Tavares (born 1982)Senegalese-French footballer
Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares (born 1952)Angolan writer and poet

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

Surnames like Tavares

Also a first name

Tavares has been given to 3,008 American babies as a first name since 1974, peaking in 1977. See it as a given name.

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.