Baer

Baer is the 2,251st most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,713 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,000.

By the numbers

People: 15,713
Rank: 2,251st
How common: 1 in 19,000
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Baer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Baer

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876)Baltic German scientist
Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014)German-born American inventor and engineer
Max Baer (1909–1959)American boxer
Richard Baer (1911–1963)SS officer
Édouard Baer (born 1966)French actor
Buddy Baer (1915–1986)American boxer
Robert Baer (born 1952)American CIA case officer and author
Jo Baer (1929–2025)American painter

People named Baer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Baer

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.