Bare
surname · Latin script
Meaning: John, Roger Bare 1274 RH (Sf), 1327 SRSf
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bare is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 46K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 54K
- NENiger≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
7,291 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Niger, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Baré in BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
John, Roger Bare 1274 RH (Sf), 1327 SRSf. OE bær ‘bare’ in one of its early senses, ‘unarmed, defenceless, deserted, indigent’. 179
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bare counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 7,291 | 1 in 46K | 7.3K | Bare | 325 |
| NE Niger | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Bare | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 182 | Bare | 74 |
| FR France | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 98 | — | 2 |
| SO Somalia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 9 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 414 | 1 in 28K | 414 | Baré | 15 |
| AL Albania | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 24 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 1 | — | — |
7,291 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bare is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from OE bær 'bare' in an early sense: 'unarmed, defenceless, deserted, indigent'; first attested John, Roger Bare 1274 RH (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Akan, v. (.. ho, .. so) ^ cover, lay over^ overspread'^ s, baw; to sling, wrap, wind, twine, twist round; to embrace closely, clasp round, — red. bebare, bobare, bobabobare. — de bare ani, prop, to twist (the arms, in wrestling) face to face, i, e. to engage in hattle, to fight hand to hand
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In kr, s. the first farm- cleaning or weeding after planting It is performed when the millet is one third or half a foot high; and, at the same time, the superfluous plants are rooted up, and only two or three left in one hole, which holes are about two feet distant from each other
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In jmd, the two crossbeams in a Tanimbarese house which project from the entrance, and are longer than the others
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George Bareb. 1899USAmerican military officer and modern pentathlete (1899–1981)
- Reginald Bareb. 1900GBBritish rower (1900-1984)
- Luella Kleinb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican obstetrician and gynecologist
- Howard Bareb. 1911USAmerican politician in Pennsylvania (1911-2002)
- Richard L. Bareb. 1913USAmerican film and television director (1913–2015)
- Bobby Bareb. 1935USAmerican country singer
- Ray Bareb. 1949USAmerican baseball player (1949–1994)
- Goran Bareb. 1965HRCroatian rock musician, singer
- Bobby Bare, Jr.b. 1966USAmerican musician
- Prakash BareINIndian actor and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.3K | #4,836 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.9K | #4,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.7K | #4,801 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 98 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 27 | #39,283 |
| SO Somalia | Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists | 2023 | 9 | #45 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bare come from?
- John, Roger Bare 1274 RH (Sf), 1327 SRSf. OE bær ‘bare’ in one of its early senses, ‘unarmed, defenceless, deserted, indigent’. 179 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Bare?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bare mean?
- Recorded meaning: John, Roger Bare 1274 RH (Sf), 1327 SRSf.
- In which country does Bare have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Bare, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bare.
- How common is the name Bare?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,291 people named Bare in 2010, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bareThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bare”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.