Bearer Family History

English: possibly an occupational name from Middle English berere ‘carrier or porter’ but no evidence has been found that it became hereditary. Alternatively, an altered form of another name such as Berrier a very rare occupational name for a thresher of grain (an agent derivative of Middle English berien ‘to beat thresh’) or Berrow a variant of Barrow or an English equivalent (via Anglo-Norman French) of Berard.

Americanized form of German Böhrer (see Bohrer).