"Traditional German name"
The name Bauer is commonly a male name from the "German" origin.
Bauer is a German family name, from Middle High German gebure, meaning farmer or peasant; the word survives in modern German as Bauer. In German-speaking countries it has been used almost exclusively as a surname. Its appearance in United States birth records as a boy's given name begins in the 1990s, which fits the wider American practice of taking surnames as first names.
The pronunciation of Bauer is BOW-er.
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