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The BAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 759 29359 0 3
United States (1880 census) 361 12432 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +398 -16927 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 18 56694 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 146 24816 0.001 8
California 125 34538 0.000 4
New Jersey 58 33032 0.001 7
Michigan 51 44545 0.001 5
Florida 46 59040 0.000 3
Top States for BAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 19 14380 0.002 21
New York 146 24816 0.001 8
New Jersey 58 33032 0.001 7
Delaware 5 36949 0.001 6
Michigan 51 44545 0.001 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BAR in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BAR by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BAR

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BAR surname.

Ethnic distribution of BAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 603 79.45
Black/African American 61 8.04
White (Hispanic) 58 7.64
Mixed Race 18 2.37
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BAR is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BAR in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BAR.

Similar names to BAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BAR

The following words are slight variants of BAR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.