Male name
Bear
1,147 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2022. Expression number: 8.
Origin
As an English surname, related to bear As a German surname, spelling variant of Baer and BahrFrom Wiktionary, entry “Bear”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In England and Wales
Peak in 2022: 126 births. 1,147 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 2015. It is still given: 528 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the United States
Peak in 2022: 332 births. 3,356 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 2007. It is still given: 1,507 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
2 + 5 + 1 + 9 = 17 → 8
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
6
responsibility, harmony, commitment to others
5 + 1 = 6
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
11
intuition and inspiration (master number)
2 + 9 = 11
- Digits missing from the name
- 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
- Most frequent digit
- 1 · initiative, independence, beginnings
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.