Bear

Where Bear comes from

* As an English surname, related to bear * As a German surname, spelling variant of Baer and Bahr
— Wiktionary's entry for Bear
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #4,797 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Bear McCreary born
    American composer
  3. 2022
    Peak, #760
    332 babies named Bear — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Bear McCreary · American composer, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.