Bärr
surname · Latin script
Bärr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).
- USUnited States1 in 7.5K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 58K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 81K
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)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
44,130 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Baerr in US United States.
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)
- Frenchbarrir“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”(measured from records)
- Old Frenchbarrire(measured from records)
- Late Latinbarriō(measured from records)
- Latinbarrus“elephant”(measured from records)
From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).
Sources 7
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bärr 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 | 44,130 | 1 in 7.5K | 44K | Baerr | 115 |
| ES Spain | 115 | 1 in 435K | 115 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 109 | 1 in 94K | 109 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 79 | 1 in 576K | 79 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 63 | 1 in 81K | 63 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 40 | 1 in 137K | 40 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | — | — |
44,130 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling barr. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Bärr 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 gsw, bear
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Bärr mean, and where does it come from?
- From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”). Recorded by Scottish Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Bärr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Bärr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baerr.
- Where is Bärr most common?
- Bärr is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bärr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,130 people named Bärr in 2010, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
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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, “Bärr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.