Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word for the animal, which derives from Old English bera and is probably based on a root meaning “brown.”
20062006: 8 births, rank #8,732
2007: 24 births, rank #4,127
2008: 48 births, rank #2,583
2009: 55 births, rank #2,348
2010: 54 births, rank #2,354
20112011: 85 births, rank #1,730
2012: 79 births, rank #1,849
2013: 86 births, rank #1,709
2014: 131 births, rank #1,329
2015: 134 births, rank #1,317
20162016: 187 births, rank #1,055
2017: 198 births, rank #1,020
2018: 207 births, rank #998
2019: 244 births, rank #897
2020: 250 births, rank #899
20212021: 288 births, rank #827
2022: 332 births, rank #760
2023: 299 births, rank #820
2024: 302 births, rank #826
20252025: 286 births, rank #853
Bear moved from #826 to #853 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2022, with 332 births.