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    The surname Bair

    A surname, carried by 11,740 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B600

    Bair: #3,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bair #3,052, 11,740 people Bair: #3,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bair #3,052, 11,740 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bair is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,740 people named Bair in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,299 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,027.

    #3,052
    rank among US surnames
    11,740
    people in 2010
    4.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #3,013)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,043McMillian11,76526,243
    #3,044Ponder11,76426,245
    #3,045Beckett11,76326,247
    #3,046Applegate11,76226,249
    #3,047Larue11,75726,261
    #3,048Hudgins11,75526,265
    #3,049Paxton11,75426,267

    Who is named Bair

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

    93% of people named Bair identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Bairs

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Philomena Bair
      Austrian Freestyle Skier, born 1996
    • Deirdre Bair
      American biographer (1935-2020)
    • Molly Bair
      American model, born 1997
    • Matthew Koma
      American musician, born 1987

    Notable Bairs come mostly from the United States (3) and Austria (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Bair

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Bair?
    11,740 people in the United States had the surname Bair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,299 Americans. It ranked 3,052nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bair?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Bair?
    Philomena Bair, Austrian Freestyle Skier, followed by Deirdre Bair.
    Where is the surname Bair most common?
    Wikidata records people named Bair in the United States and Austria.
    Is the surname Bair getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,027 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,740 in 2010, up 6.5%.