Given name & surname

Juarez

Juarez is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, and Cebuano.

Original SpanishJuárez

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Juarez comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Juárez.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Juarez through the years

Babies since 1880
27
27 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1988
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Juarez in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1957–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 414 as a first name in 2020; 97,719 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Juarez’s family of names

In Filipino usage, Juarez as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Portuguese form SOARES. In English usage, Juarez as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Juárez. In Filipino usage, Juarez as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Suárez.

Walk Juarez’s family in the name graph

JuarezSoaresSuárez

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 3

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