Bärs
surname · Latin script
Bärs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: leopard; also used for other large felines; tiger in some contexts.
- BEBelgium1 in 110Kas Baers(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.3Mas Baers
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9Mas Baers
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 Bärs 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
107 named Baers, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium, as Baers
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Baers in US United States, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 3 more.
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)
leopard; also used for other large felines; tiger in some contexts
Sources 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bärs 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 107as Baers | 1 in 110K | 107 | Baers | 10 |
| DE Germany | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Baers | 36 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | listed | Baers | 49 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Baers | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Baers | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 6as Baers | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | Baers | 5 |
107 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Bärs 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 Swedish, a (serving of) beer; brewsky
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 2 sources across 1 country.
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 Bärs mean, and where does it come from?
- leopard; also used for other large felines; tiger in some contexts Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bärs have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 107 people named Baers, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bärs most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Bärs itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Belgium's: the national register counts about 1 in 110 thousand people named Baers.
- How common is the name Bärs?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 107 people named Baers in 2008, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A4rsThe 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, “Bärs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.