Bähr

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Comes from the town of Kippenheim (Mahlberg) Baden

/beːɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bähr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 43K
  • BRBrazil1 in 170K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
339 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bahr in US United States, DE Germany, BR Brazil and 4 more and Bæhr in NO Norway.

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)

Comes from the town of Kippenheim (Mahlberg) Baden.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bähr 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.

Where Bähr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#298≈11,000 est.≈1 in 7.6K—Bahr169
US United States—7,7311 in 43K7.7KBahr339
CD Congo - Kinshasa#593≈7,200 est.≈1 in 14K—Bahr1
BR Brazil—1,2421 in 170K1.2KBahr56
IT Italy—≈940 est.≈1 in 66K—Bahr6
HU Hungary—≈360 est.≈1 in 27K—Bahr4
AT Austria—≈310 est.≈1 in 29K—Bahr29
NO Norway—1501 in 36K150Bæhr9

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bähr is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Baḥr, Bahr

  • Danish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Bahr, Båhr

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Bahr

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bahr

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Bahr

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Syria

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Bahr, Бахр

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bähr 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 German, Familienname zu Rufname Bernhard; Schreibvariante. Bearer count: 76 Tokens (PLZ 777 Oberkirch), 51 (692 Sandhausen), 40 (662 Heusweiler), 38 (778 Bühl), 20 (749 Bad Rappenau), 20 (975 Grafenrheinfeld).

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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)

16001700180019002000George Bähr, b. 1666Franz Josef Bähr, b. 1770Johann Christian Felix Bähr, b. 1798Johann Karl Bähr, b. 1801Otto Bähr, b. 1817Wilhelm Bähr, b. 1863Jürgen Bähr, b. 1940Klaus-Dieter Bähr, b. 1941Markus Bähr, b. 1974Luise Bähr, b. 1979

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Bähr, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Bähr mean, and where does it come from?
Comes from the town of Kippenheim (Mahlberg) Baden. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
How do you pronounce Bähr?
A machine transcription gives /beːɐ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Bähr have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Bähr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahr.
How common is the name Bähr?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,731 people named Bähr in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
How common is Bähr compared with other names?
In Germany, Bähr is the 298th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bähr” — the 298th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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