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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Bar

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Ber (see Baer).
  • Variant spelling of German Bahr or Baer.
  • Polish and Czech : from a short form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj; see Bartholomew).
  • Hungarian (Bár) : from the old secular personal name Bár.

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