Last name origins & meanings:
- Jewish (Sephardic) and Turkish: occupational name for a spicer,
from Turkish bahar ‘spices’, ‘aroma’.
- Polish: derivative of Bach 6, a pet form of the personal name
Bartłomiej (see Bartholomew).
- Polish: nickname from the dialect terms bach ‘child’ or bachorz
‘belly’.
- Americanized spelling of Slovenian Bačar,
a topographic name for someone living by the ravine of the river
Bača, or a habitational name from Bača in western Slovenia,
probably named with a reduced form of globača ‘ravine’,
‘gorge’.
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