Meaning not yet researched.
Bauer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,235 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,235 in 2019; #2,486 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bauer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,486 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,235.
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Bauer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,235 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 62 (2019).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Bauer, making it the 2,486th most common boys’ name of the year, up 684 places from #3,170 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 38 boys named Bauer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,235, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #3,302 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bauer in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 875 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 395 babies named Bauer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 501 US boys were named Bauer; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bauer ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #583 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bahar, Baer and Bar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bahar (605), Baer (256), Bar (50), Bair (33), Bahr (22), Barr (16), Bahir (11), Baheer (8).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bauer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 5 | #583 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #822 | #795 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,486 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,170 |
| 2023 | — | — | 46 | #2,769 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,858 | 47 | #2,757 |
| 2021 | — | — | 54 | #2,465 |
| 2020 | — | — | 59 | #2,296 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,235 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,510 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,640 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,791 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,302 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,543 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,066 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,539 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,953 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,252 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,279 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,410 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,697 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,550 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,207 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,028 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,300 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,103 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #10,740 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,511 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,777 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,414 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,142 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).