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