Given name & surname

Pair

“bear”

Pair is a surname, probably from German.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Pair probably goes back to a word meaning “bear.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Pair probably comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Pair’s family of names

In English usage, Pair as a surname has a related form in BAER.

Walk Pair’s family in the name graph

PairBaer

The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Pair, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

German · Nature

Palm

“palm tree”

No U.S. birth series

47% boys · 53% girls

Yiddish

Picker

“to peck”

No U.S. birth series

—

German

Peppler

Peppler is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

—

German

Posner

Posner is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

—

German

Pinsker

Pinsker is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

—

German

Pimsleur

“paintbrush”

No U.S. birth series

—

German

Pfahler

Pfahler is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

—

German

Prager

Prager is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

—

Sibling ideas

Names that share Pair’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Pair

A sister for Pair