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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from baars ‘bass’, ‘perch’, applied as a derogatory nickname or possibly from a house name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a perch.
  • Dutch : variant of the habitational name Beers.
  • German (North Sea area) : variant of Barsch.

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