Bearer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɛɹɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bearer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In St. Kitts & Nevis it is the 11th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 625K(measured from records)
- MUMauritius≈1 in 208K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 632K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)
532 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bearer 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 | — | 532 | 1 in 625K | 543 | Bearer | 160 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 641K | — | Bearer | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 746K | — | Bearer | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Bearer | 5 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Bearer | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 632K | — | Bearer | 2 |
| MU Mauritius | #384 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Bearer | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | #11 | — | — | — | Bearer | 1 |
532 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 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)
Bearer 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 Latin, first-person singular imperfect passive subjunctive 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)
- Elaine L. Bearerb. 1947USAmerican neurobiologist and pathologist
- Cynthia BearerUSneonatologist
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 543 | #38,320 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 532 | #40,976 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 521 | #44,416 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Bearer mean, and where does it come from?
- One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bearer?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛɹɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bearer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 532 people named Bearer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bearer.
- How common is the name Bearer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 532 people named Bearer in 2010, about 1 in 625 thousand residents.
- How common is Bearer compared with other names?
- In St. Kitts & Nevis, Bearer is the 11th most common surname of 149 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bearerThe 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, “Bearer” — the 11th most common surname in St. Kitts & Nevis. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.