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    The surname Baar

    A Dutch place surname, carried by 824 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baar is more common than 82.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    * As a German surname, variant of Bahr, or from the placenames Baar, Swabia or Baar, Rhineland-Palatinate. * As a Dutch surname (Van Baar), from the placename Baar, a village near Angerlo or the hamlet near Wehl, both in Gelderland province. * Also as a Dutch surname (De Baar), from the rare adjective baar (“bare”), from Middle Dutch bāer, from Old Dutch *bar. * As a Czech surname, short form of Bartoloměj. Compare Bartholomew.

    Baar is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 824 people named Baar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 374,691 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 795.

    #28,856
    rank among US surnames
    824
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #28,298)

    Who is named Baar

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Baar identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Baar

    Baar has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Baar come from?
    * As a German surname, variant of Bahr, or from the placenames Baar, Swabia or Baar, Rhineland-Palatinate. * As a Dutch surname (Van Baar), from the placename Baar, a village near Angerlo or the hamlet near Wehl, both in Gelderland province. * Also as a Dutch surname (De Baar), from the rare…
    How common is the surname Baar?
    824 people in the United States had the surname Baar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 374,691 Americans. It ranked 28,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Baar?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Baar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Baar?
    Baar is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Baar getting more or less common?
    More common. 795 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 824 in 2010, up 3.6%.