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bare Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Old English bær ‘bare’, which in medieval times in addition to the sense ‘naked’, ‘uncovered’, also meant ‘unarmed’, ‘defenseless’, ‘unconcealed’, ‘destitute’.
  2. Altered spelling of German Bär (see Baer).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bare Families in the US in 1920
Number of bare families
 70-137
 24-69		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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