All over the world, Bauer (Bauer 
, باور 
, バウアー 
, among others...) is quite a rare dominantly boy's, but uncommonly girly first name. The forename Bauer is characteristic of Austria, where it is quite a rare unisex name, Syria, where it is a rare male name, and Iraq. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Egypt, China, and Iraq. Much more frequently, Bauer is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Bauer | France, United States, Germany, Brazil, Austria |
| باور | Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran |
| バウアー | Japan |
| Бауэр | Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Russia |
| Бауер | Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia |
| באואר | Israel |
Bauer is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Bauer , the operatic character in the opera Simplicius Simplicissimus and Bauer mit Ziege am Wegesrand , the operatic character in the opera Tote Seelen, Dead Souls.
| kaspar bauer DE (b. 1614) |
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| melchior bauer German inventor, DE (b. 1733) |
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gottlieb august bauer German painter (1828-1913), DE (b. 1828) |
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| gottlieb bauer (b. 1822) |
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| elkan bauer Austrian composer, AT (b. 1852) |
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| veit bauer (b. 1843) |
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| jakab bauer (b. 1852) |
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| hynek zikmund bauer holocaust victim, b. 1868-05-12, CZ (b. 1868) |
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| zikmund bauer holocaust victim, b. 1873-01-10, CZ (b. 1873) |
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| zikmund bauer holocaust victim, b. 1876-08-27, CZ (b. 1876) |
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| lorenz bauer German priest, DE (b. 1880) |
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wolf bauer German politician and member of the conservative CDU, DE (b. 1939) |
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| lawson h. bauer chemist to the New Jersey Zinc Company, Franklin (b. 1889) |
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tamas bauer Member National Assembly of Hungary, HU (b. 1946) |
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wolf bauer film producer, DE (b. 1950) |
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