Iar Family History

Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Moshe, Giora, Ilan, Arie, Eliahu, Hadassa, Haim, Menashe, Mordechai, Nadav, Nir, Noam. French Dany, Francois, Henri. German Hans, Gerhard, Willi.

Jewish (Ashkenazic; also Bär): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber (see Baer 2).

German (Bär): variant of Baer 1 ‘bear’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this and of its cognate Bähr (see Bahr 2).

Germanized form (Bär) of Sorbian Běr: from a short form of the Old Sorbian personal name Běrisław (based on the Old Slavic imperative beri ‘collect’). Compare Baer 3.

Polish; Czech (mainly Bár): from a vernacular short form of the Latin personal name Bartholomaeus (Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj); see Bartholomew .

Hungarian (Bár): from the old personal name Bár.

French: habitational name from any of several places so named, e.g. in Ardennes and Aube, from the Gaulish word barr meaning ‘height, peak’. Compare Debar , Dubar , and Lebar .