Baars Family History
Baars Name Meaning
Dutch: from baars ‘bass perch’ applied as a nickname of a fisherman or as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named In de Baars (‘In the Bass’). Dutch: habitational name from Baars the name of a hamlet near Steenwijkerwold in Overijssel derived from the farm name De Baars (compare above). North German: variant of Barsch .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022