Baring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Bar, a medieval German nickname from Middle Low German bar ‘bear’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Baring is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Baring is also written แบริ่ง in Thai.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 91K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 250Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Baring itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Baring in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Baring
- English:/ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/baɾinɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)son of Bar, a medieval German nickname from Middle Low German bar ‘bear’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Baring is found
(measured from records)Baring 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #691 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Baring | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Baring | 100 |
| US United States | — | 170 | 1 in 2M | 206 | Baring | 152 |
| IN India | — | 140 | 1 in 9.5M | 140 | Baring | 12 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 1 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Baring | 64 |
| DK Denmark | — | 35as Berring | 1 in 168K | 35 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Baring 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, present participle and gerund of bare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, preserved shrimp sauce
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, eggplant, brinjal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, to lie down
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ckv, mumps
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Thomas Baringb. 1826GBBritish Liberal politician (1826-1904)
- Evelyn Baring Cromerb. 1841GBBritish statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator (1841-1917)
- Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromerb. 1918GBBritish diplomat (1918-1991)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Baring mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Bar, a medieval German nickname from Middle Low German bar ‘bear’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Baring?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /baɾinɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Baring?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Baring in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baring. After it come United Kingdom, United States, India and Papua New Guinea; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Baring?
- In the United States, the national register counted 170 people named Baring in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Baring compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Baring is the 691st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baringThe 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, “Baring” — the 691st most common surname in the Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.