Bearer
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bearer is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jersey it is the 11th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
- USUnited States1 in 625K◐
- JEJersey1 in 979
- LULuxembourg1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈542 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 144 ●
- 1 in 625K ◐
across 2 countries
recorded for this name
4.9K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Берер in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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●
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 532 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 625K | 543 | Bearer | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 276 | 273 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #408 | 146 | 0 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 118 | 6 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 2 |
| LU Luxembourg | #121 | 111 | 0 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 96 | 49 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 13 |
| RU Russia | — | 93 | 24 rec. | — | — | Берер | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 91 | 92 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 87 | 6 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 5 |
| PA Panama | — | 58 | 4 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 51 | 0 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | #78 | 42 | 0 rec. | — | — | Bearer | 1 |
Roughly 532 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 625K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.9K75%
- Spanish2834%
- Chinese2093%
- 951%
- French911%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,924 | 75% |
| Spanish | 283 | 4% |
| Chinese | 209 | 3% |
| 95 | 1% | |
| French | 91 | 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●
Bearer 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 Latin, first-person singular imperfect passive subjunctive of beō
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Elaine L. Bearerb. 1947USAmerican neurobiologist and pathologist
- Cynthia BearerUSneonatologist
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 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 543 | #38,320 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 532 | #40,976 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 521 | #44,416 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bearer?
- We estimate roughly 542 people bear Bearer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bearer have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 532 people bear Bearer in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bearer.
- How common is Bearer compared with other names?
- In Jersey, Bearer is the 11th most common surname of 37 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Bearer mean?
- Recorded meaning: One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
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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, “Bearer” — the 11th most common surname in Jersey. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.