Bar Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Bar is a branch of the Barr name tree. In origin, the name means “Hilltop”.

Bar and Barr

Without the “r” of Barr, Bar is a simpler written form of the same name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

999 Americans were listed as Bar in the 2010 census. French birth records list 3,163 children named Bar between 1891 and 2000. Births ran at 114 in 1891–1900 and 311 in 1991–2000.

Heraldry and the Bar name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Bar, so the heraldry linked to Barr is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Want more than a summary? See the Bar family name pack.