Nymograph

Bear: popularity and history

Explore how often Bear appears in published U.S. birth-name records. Counts describe recorded births, not how many people with this name are alive today.

Male records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 286 births and rank 853.

First published birth year
1975
Total published births, 1975–2025
3,356
Best annual rank
760 in 2022
Bear · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.000.951.90197520002025

The line shows relative use, not raw counts. Gaps are unpublished observations. Open the interactive chart for exact annual values.

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Bear · male records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
2025286853
2024302826
2023299820
2022332760
2021288827
2020250900
2019244897
2018207998
20171981,020
20161871,056
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Bear · male records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
2025286853
2024302826
2023299820
2022332760
2021288827
2020250900
2019244897
2018207998
20171981,020
20161871,056

Nearby spellings in the directory

Alphabetical neighbors, not evidence of shared meaning, origin or popularity. Each spelling has its own recorded history.

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How to read these figures

An absent observation is not zero: small counts are withheld, and no published count may mean no births or a suppressed count. Early years are less complete. Recorded sex is a source category, not a rule about who may use a name. Annual ranks order published counts, with alphabetical tie-breaking. National and state totals need not match.

These records describe usage. They do not establish a name’s meaning, origin, ethnicity or pronunciation.