Bähre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Form ohne Apokope; Familienname zu Rufname Bernhard
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bähre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 93K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 144K
- SESweden1 in 262K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bähre itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
≈900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bahre in US United States, CA Canada, NO Norway and 2 more and Baehre in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Form ohne Apokope; Familienname zu Rufname Bernhard. Bearer count: 420 Tokens, Großraum Hannover.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bähre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Bähre | 45 |
| IN India | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 1 | Bahre | 12 |
| US United States | 244 | 1 in 1.4M | 273 | Bahre | 105 |
| CA Canada | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 708K | — | Bahre | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 39 | 1 in 262K | 39 | Baehre | 7 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | Bahre | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | Bahre | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karl Bähreb. 1899DEGerman water polo player (1899–1960)
- Harry Bähreb. 1941DEGerman footballer
- Julia Bähreb. 1974German actress
- Mike-Steven Bähreb. 1995DEGerman association football player
- Jonathan Bähreb. 1996DEGerman basketball player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bähre mean?
- Recorded meaning: Form ohne Apokope; Familienname zu Rufname Bernhard.
- In which country does Bähre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 895 people named Bähre in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bähre.
- How common is the name Bähre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 244 people named Bähre in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A4hreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bähre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.