Bar
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bar is a name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: probably to ahd. bar 'man'; hard to separate from BÄR.
- IDIndonesia1 in 987◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2.8K
- TRTürkiye1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈65K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 323 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
426K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Beer in US United States, ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Bir in SY Syria, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 1 more, Baru in ID Indonesia, VN Vietnam and Bor in TR Türkiye, PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
probably to ahd. bar 'man'; hard to separate from BÄR
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | 105,054 | 447 rec. | — | listed | Baru | 71 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 44,647 | 16K rec. | — | — | Bor | 48 |
| IN India | — | 41,715 | 310K rec. | 1 in 32K | 42K | Bari | 127 |
| ZA South Africa | #219 | 10,878 | 11K rec. | — | — | Beer | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9,460 | 8.8K rec. | — | 7 | Beer | 169 |
| US United States | — | 8,252 | 57K rec. | 1 in 40K | 9K | Beer | 323 |
| AU Australia | — | 7,902 | 8.1K rec. | — | 2 | Beer | 142 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,059△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 69K | 3.1K | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,572△ | 346 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Beer | 50 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,378△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,328△ | 341 rec. | 1 in 21K | 15K | Bru | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,111 | 2.5K rec. | — | 5 | Beer | 94 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English470K47%
- Arabic104K11%
- French12K1%
- Hindi11K1%
- English (Uganda)3.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 469,974 | 47% |
| Arabic | 104,180 | 11% |
| French | 12,242 | 1% |
| Hindi | 11,360 | 1% |
| English (Uganda) | 3,687 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Variante di Bardo, dal germanico, «forte, audace».
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Rabat, Bordeaux, Israel, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, Aramaic bar 'son'; common name element
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Aramaic element meaning 'son of'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 10 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 11 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 6 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 8 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 4 |
| 1942 | 17 |
| 1943 | 7 |
| 1944 | 14 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 14 |
| 1948 | 11 |
| 1949 | 13 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 13 |
| 1952 | 23 |
| 1953 | 11 |
| 1954 | 21 |
| 1955 | 20 |
| 1956 | 16 |
| 1957 | 22 |
| 1958 | 24 |
| 1959 | 12 |
| 1960 | 26 |
| 1961 | 14 |
| 1962 | 15 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 13 |
| 1965 | 19 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 18 |
| 1969 | 19 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 17 |
| 1973 | 22 |
| 1974 | 34 |
| 1975 | 18 |
| 1976 | 20 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 13 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 19 |
| 1983 | 15 |
| 1984 | 19 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 17 |
| 1988 | 13 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jacques Barb. 1921FRFrench film producer (1921–2009)
- Luis Barboob. 1927ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor (1927-2001)
- Zvi Barb. 1935ILIsraeli politician
- Moshe Bar-Asherb. 1939MAIsraeli linguist
- Hanania Baerb. 1943ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli cinematographer
- Ronen Barb. 1965ILhead of Shin Bet
- Noma Barb. 1973ILA London-based graphic artist,
- Sendi Barb. 1976ILIsraeli actress and model
- Bar Palyb. 1982ILAmerican actress
- Bar Refaelib. 1985ILIsraeli model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 45 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #3,662 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,564 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,475 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 999 | #24,890 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 775 | #11,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 759 | #29,359 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 452 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 383 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 378 | #4,188 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bar?
- We estimate roughly 65 thousand people bear Bar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bar have the most bearers?
- Bar is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled baru.
- How common is Bar compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Bar is the 219th most common surname of 302,267 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Bar mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably to ahd. bar 'man'; hard to separate from BÄR
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bar” — the 219th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.