Bachar

See also: bachař

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Hebrew בֶּכֶר (békher), a Jewish Sephardic surname.
• Borrowed from Polish Bachar, perhaps a nickname from bach (“child”) or bachorz (“belly”).
• Americanized spelling of Slovene Bačar, a habitational surname from any of various places in Slovenia called Bača.

Proper noun

Bachar (plural Bachars)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bachar is the 39212^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 561 individuals. Bachar is most common among White (85.92%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bachar”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 79.