The Suarez surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 66,013 people carried this name — #510 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 4,470 people counted. That is up 40% from 47,235 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 169,015 people named Suarez live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
857 people named Suarez live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 654 people named Suarez.
279 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 52 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
124 people named Suarez is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Suarez in American newspapers,
1859–1913.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 37,005 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Suarez,
with a public archive behind them.
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Germán Suárez Vértiz 1897–1975 · painter -
Laura Suarez 1909–1990 · actor
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Ernesto Suarez 1940– · actor -
Bobby A. Suarez 1942–2010 · screenwriter -
Danilo Suarez 1942– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 116 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Suarez.
- Stumpf 6,173 · U.S. census
- Sturm 9,242 · U.S. census
- Sturma 111 · U.S. census
- Stutz 3,904 · U.S. census
- Su 12,973 · U.S. census
- Suares 639 · U.S. census
- Sube 127 · U.S. census
- Subias 238 · U.S. census
- Sublet 181 · U.S. census
- Subramaniam 1,151 · U.S. census
- Succo 108 · U.S. census
- Such 1,160 · U.S. census
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