# Bartlett (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bartlett/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tlət/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 646 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 646 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

The pear was named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, after himself.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | 4,274 |
| 1972 | 9 | 3,372 |
| 1974 | 9 | 3,584 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,474 |
| 1977 | 7 | 4,633 |
| 1978 | 5 | 5,873 |
| 1981 | 8 | 4,549 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,457 |
| 1983 | 9 | 4,162 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,412 |
| 1985 | 6 | 5,843 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,054 |
| 1988 | 10 | 4,478 |
| 1992 | 5 | 8,553 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11,547 |

## People named Bartlett

- Bartlett Cormack, American actor (1898-1942)
- Bartlett Robinson, American actor (1912-1986)
- Alan Shepard, American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)
- Bill Peet, Artist, illustrator, author, animator and story teller (1915-2002)
- Frank B. Willis, American politician (1871-1928)
- Joe Choynski, American boxer (1868-1943)

## 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.