Annual registration volume (number of births) for Bear across 146 years of SSA data.
Historical Timeline (1880 - 2025)
18801920196020002025
Recent Decade (2015 - 2025)
5-Year Trend (2020β2025)
+14.4%
10-Year Trend (2015β2025)
+113.4%
201520202025
π Popularity Milestones
Busiest Year on Record332births in 2022
Years in Top 1000 yrs
Years in Top 5000 yrs
Longest Streak21 yrs
Decade-by-Decade Registration Volumes
1880s: 0
1890s: 0
1900s: 0
1910s: 0
1920s: 0
1930s: 0
1940s: 0
1950s: 0
1960s: 0
1970s: 6
1980s: 5
1990s: 11
2000s: 172
2010s: 1,405
2020s: 1,757
π Sound & Spelling Structure
Phonetic SyllablesBear
Letter Count4 letters
Spelling ComplexityEasy
Length Percentile
Longer than 1.4% of names
Linguistic Profile: It is an isogram, meaning no two letters are repeated. Longer than 1.4% of SSA names. Starts with B, a letter used by only 3.6% of SSA names.
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