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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber (see Baer).
  2. Variant spelling of German Bahr or Baer.
  3. Polish and Czech: from a short form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj; see Bartholomew).
  4. Hungarian (Bár): from the old secular personal name Bár.