Given name & surname
Phares
“a breach”
Phares is used as a given name and a surname.
Original Hebrewפרץ
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Phares means “a breach.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Phares is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew verb paras (פרץ), “to break through.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Phares appears in Genesis 38:29, Matthew 1:3, Luke 3:33.
- Genesis 38:29
- Matthew 1:3
- Luke 3:33
From biblical name research
Phares through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 219
- 219 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 190 as a first name in 2020; 3,165 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.
Phares’s family of names
Phares may belong to the same name family as PHARRES. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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