Bawer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bawer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Related to Persian باور (bâvar).
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.5Mas Baewer(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 299K
- ATAustria≈1 in 519K
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 Bawer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 299K (inferred from the name graph)
128 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baewer in IE Ireland.
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)
Related to Persian باور (bâvar).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bawer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 128 | 1 in 299K | 66 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | Bawer | 72 |
| BR Brazil | 59 | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Bawer | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Bawer | 17 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 519K | 14 | Bawer | 4 |
| IL Israel | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Bawer | 5 |
| IE Ireland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 856K | — | baEWEr | 1 |
| DK Denmark | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 8 | — | — |
128 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Bawer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Faith, trust and a sense of confidence
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In tiy, the tension spring of a snare-type trap
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In phi-pro, trigger on spring trap
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zza, faith
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, substance gluante (du varech)
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bawer Rodî Qantozb. 1945DEKurdish physician
- Bawer CanKurdish musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 66 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 66 | #41,027 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 62 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #42,443 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Bawer mean, and where does it come from?
- Related to Persian باور (bâvar). Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Bawer have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 128 people named Bawer, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bawer most common?
- Bawer is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 299 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bawer?
- In Poland, the national register counted 128 people named Bawer in 2026, about 1 in 299 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bawerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bawer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.