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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Arabic, Turkish, and Jewish (Sephardic): from Arabic bahār ‘spice’, an occupational name for a spicer or perhaps a personal name.
  2. Arabic, Turkish, and Jewish (Sephardic): perhaps a variant of Bāhir, an Arabic personal name meaning ‘brilliant’, ‘superb’.