Baehr Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Baehr is one more way Behr has been written over the centuries. At root, the name means “Someone who lived at the sign of the bear”. Records show Baehr as one of the forms Behr took over time.

The 2010 US Census counted 1,622 people named Baehr, ranking it number 17,398 among American surnames. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames. French civil records give 756 births under the name Baehr from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960. Births ran at 66 in 1891–1900 and 52 in 1991–2000.

Arms linked to Behr and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Baehr family name pack.