Beare
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of bear
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beare is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 81K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 474K
- ESSpain1 in 8.3M
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)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
702 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Obsolete form of bear.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Beare 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 702 | 1 in 474K | 781 | Beare | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 42 | 1 in 81K | 42 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Beare | 28 |
702 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Beare is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, to make someone happy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of beō:
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- George Beareb. 1725GBpainter from England (1725–1749)
- Thomas Hudson Beareb. 1859GBAustralian engineer
- George Beareb. 1885GBEnglish footballer (1885-1970)
- William Beareb. 1900GBBritish latinist (1900-1963)
- Francis Wright Beareb. 1902CA(1902-1986)
- Gerry Beareb. 1905AUAustralian rules footballer (1905-1983)
- Nikki Beareb. 1928USAmerican feminist, journalist and lobbyist
- Hedley Beareb. 1932AUAustralian academic (1932–2010)
- Gary Beareb. 1952USAmerican baseball player
- Jon Beareb. 1974CACanadian rower (1974–2023)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 781 | #31,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 765 | #29,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 702 | #32,710 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 42 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #172,209 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Beare mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of bear. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Beare?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɪɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Beare have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 702 people named Beare, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beare.
- Where is Beare most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beare is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 81 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Beare?
- In the United States, the national register counted 702 people named Beare in 2010, about 1 in 474 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beareThe 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, “Beare”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.