Baer Family History
- Baer Name Meaning
- German (Bär): from Middle High German ber ‘bear’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing bear, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a bear. In some cases, it may derive from a personal name containing this element. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber, from Yiddish ber ‘bear’. Dutch: from Middle Dutch baer ‘naked’, ‘bare’. Debrabandere suggests it may have been a nickname for someone who wore ragged clothes.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 660,000 Historical Documents with Baer on Ancestry
- 198,599 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 80,235 Census and Voter Lists
- 22,306 Military Records
- 20,578 Immigration Records
- 338,282 Member Trees
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Number of Baer families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Baer families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Baer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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