Bęŕ

surname · Latin script

Bęŕ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 34K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 103K
  • UYUruguay1 in 136K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

421 people, 2010

Record sources
40 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bér in CZ Czechia.

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)

from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Russian Surnames

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Bęŕ 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.

Where Bęŕ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4211 in 790K421—17
PL Poland3731 in 103K194—40
BR Brazil2491 in 850K249——
ES Spain1371 in 365K137—1
AR Argentina901 in 505K90——
CZ Czechia661 in 162K66Bér17
SI Slovenia621 in 34K62——
UY Uruguay251 in 136K25——
NO Norway181 in 304K18——

421 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Bęŕ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Mexico, Russia, Morocco

    Also written Ber, Bér, Ḃễṝ, Bër, Ḇër

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bęŕ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bęŕ mean, and where does it come from?
from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and Russian Surnames.
In which country does Bęŕ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 421 people named Bęŕ, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bęŕ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bęŕ is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bęŕ?
In the United States, the national register counted 421 people named Bęŕ in 2010, about 1 in 790 thousand residents.

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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, “Bęŕ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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