Cazares
A Spanish surname most likely connected to a place name or local feature, and especially found in Spanish-speaking communities of the Americas.
The #2,254 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 19,136 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Cazares is a Spanish surname that is likely to have arisen from a place name, though the exact original place or local form is not certain. It may be related to a regional toponym ultimately from Latin roots, but the surname’s precise derivation is not firmly established in standard onomastic references. In practice, it functions as a Hispanic locational surname formed from a family’s association with a named place or settlement.
History
The surname is most often encountered in Mexico and in Mexican-American communities in the United States. Like many Spanish surnames, it spread through migration from Iberia to the Americas during the colonial period and later through internal migration within Mexico and across the border. The spelling without an accent is standard in English-language records.
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Fun fact
In U.S. records, Cazares is close enough to common English spelling patterns that it is often left unaccented even when the original Spanish pronunciation is preserved.