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Bear - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Bear

[ 1 syll. bea(r), be-ar ] The boy name Bear is pronounced as BEHR KEY. Bear is primarily used in English and its language of origin is Germanic. Bear is a pet form of the English, French, and Italian name Bernard.

Bear is seldom used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, within the group of boy names directly related to Bear, the English, French, and Italian Bernard was the most frequently used.

Baby names that sound like Bear include the Irish Bairre, the Arabic Bahir, the Hebrew Bar, the Spanish Baruj, the English Ber, the Scandinavian Birre, the Vietnamese Bourey, the Scandinavian Børre, the Galician Brais, the English Bray, the English Bri, the Portuguese Bru, the English Brye, the name Burr, the Urdu Babar, the English Bari, the Irish Barra, the English Barrey, the English Barri, and the English and Irish Barrie.

KEY: Pronunciation for Bear: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)"


 
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