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The baer Surname

baer Name Meaning and History

  1. German (Bär): from Middle High German ber ‘bear’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing bear, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a bear. In some cases, it may derive from a personal name containing this element.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic):
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber, from Yiddish ber ‘bear’.
  4. Dutch: from Middle Dutch baer ‘naked’, ‘bare’. Debrabandere suggests it may have been a nickname for someone who wore ragged clothes.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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baer Family Facts

Distribution of baer Families in the US in 1920
Number of baer families
 261-519
 88-260		 1-87
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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