Bīř
surname · Latin script
Bīř is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Punjabi ਬੀਰ (bīr). Bīř is also written বর in Bengali, เบอะ in Thai and బీర in Telugu.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 87Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.4Kas Beer
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.3Kas Bär
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 Bīř 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 named Beer, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bīř in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Thai and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Beer in US United States, ZA South Africa, CH Switzerland and 1 more, Bari in IN India, Bor in TR Türkiye and Bir in TN Tunisia.
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)Borrowed from Punjabi ਬੀਰ (bīr).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bīř is found
(measured from records)Bīř 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #213 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Beer | 106 |
| IN India | — | 41,715as Bora | 1 in 32K | 42K | Bari | 140 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 9 | Beer | 20 |
| US United States | — | 8,252as Bear | 1 in 40K | 9K | Beer | 360 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Bor | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,572as Bär | 1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Beer | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,280as Bore | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | — | 10 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 723as Bari | 1 in 7.5K | 723 | — | 8 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Bir | 5 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bīř mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Punjabi ਬੀਰ (bīr). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bīř?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Beer in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Italy, United States and Türkiye; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bīř?
- In India, the national register counted 41,715 people named Bora, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Bīř compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Bīř is the 213th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bīř?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%AB%C5%99The 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, “Bīř” — the 213th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.