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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a personal name of Slavic origin (see Boris), or from a reduced form of the medieval personal name Liborius, patron saint of the city of Paderborn.
  • Danish and Swedish : from German Baar, Bahr (see Beer), recorded in Denmark since the 18th century.

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