Bèr
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Bèr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar. Bèr is also written בער in Hebrew.
- SISlovenia1 in 34K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 46K
- PLPoland1 in 103K
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 Bèr 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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bèr in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ber in US United States, PL Poland, DE Germany and Bęr in DZ Algeria.
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 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bèr is found
(measured from records)Bèr 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.
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bèr is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nrm, cradle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bèr mean, and where does it come from?
- from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and Russian Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Bèr?
- In the etymology graph, Baer, Berto and Brecht are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bèr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Bèr in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bęr. After it come France, Germany, United States and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bèr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 421 people named Bèr in 2010, about 1 in 790 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bèr?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A8rThe 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, “Bèr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.