Soares Family History
Soares Name Meaning
Portuguese: patronymic from the medieval personal name Sueiro derived from Latin suarius ‘swineherd’ (see Spanish Suero ). Spanish: northwestern variant of Suárez (see Suarez ) a cognate of 1 above. English: variant of Soar with post-medieval excrescent -s. Jewish (Sephardic): Portuguese surname (see 1 above) adopted at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022