# Bartholomew (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bartholomew/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Aramaic |
| Meaning | “son of talmai”, “son of ptolemy”, “son”, “talmai”, “ptolemy” |
| Pronunciation | /bɑɹˈθɑləmju/, 4 syllables |
| Nicknames | Barry, Bart, Bartlett, Batt, Bate, Barty, Tolly, Barson |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,271 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,271 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 226, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Latin Bartholomaeus, from Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος (Bartholomaîos), from Aramaic בר תלמי (bar tolmai, “son of Talmai; son of Ptolemy”), from בר (bar, “son”) and תלמי (tolmai, “Talmai; Ptolemy”). It has long been unclear whether the Apostle's father was named after the biblical Talmai, king of Geshur, or one of the Greek Ptolemies, as the two originally unrelated names were conflated in Jewish Aramaic. The ending -ew underwent a similar evolution to that seen in Hebrew (ultimately from Latin Hebraeus) and Jew (from Latin Iudaeus, with loss of the -ud-). The name's pronunciation was changed to match the spelling; contrast French Barthélemy from the same source.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 4,836 |
| 2012 | 14 | 6,029 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,645 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,122 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,346 |
| 2017 | 22 | 4,482 |
| 2018 | 35 | 3,251 |
| 2019 | 34 | 3,356 |
| 2020 | 22 | 4,440 |
| 2021 | 37 | 3,187 |
| 2022 | 29 | 3,784 |
| 2023 | 33 | 3,480 |
| 2024 | 35 | 3,337 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,093 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Բարդուղիմեոս
- Bulgarian: Вартоломе́й
- Catalan: Bartolomeu
- Czech: Bartoloměj
- Dutch: Bartolomeüs
- Esperanto: Bartolomeo
- Finnish: Pertti, Perttu
- French: Barthélemy
- Georgian: ბართლომე
- German: Bartholomäus
- Greek: Βαρθολομαίος
- Hindi: बार्थोलोम्यू
- Hungarian: Bertalan
- Indonesian: Bartolomeus
- Irish: Parthalán
- Italian: Bartolomeo
- Latin: Bartholomaeus
- Lithuanian: Baltramiejus
- Polish: Bartłomiej, Bartosz
- Portuguese: Bartolomeu

## People named Bartholomew

- Bartholomew the Apostle, Christian apostle and martyr
- Bartholomew Anglicus, 13th-century scholastic scholar, author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum
- Bartholomew Gosnold, English barrister, explorer, and privateer (1571–1607)
- Bartholomew Sharp, English buccaneer
- Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, English nobleman
- I. Bartholomeos, Ecumenist ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople since 1991
- Bart Baker, American entertainer and Internet personality

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.