Bart
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bart is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Belgium it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Bart, a shortened form of Bartholomew and variants; or different form of Barth (i).
- BEBelgium1 in 535◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 562
- INIndia1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈55K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 401 ●
- 1 in 562 ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
1.7M records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Barth in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, AT Austria and 5 more, Bhatt in BR Brazil, PK Pakistan, JP Japan and 1 more, Bharat in IN India, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and Baert in BE Belgium, FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From the male personal name Bart, a shortened form of Bartholomew and variants; or different form of Barth (i).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #158 | 2,356,491 | 1.1M rec. | — | 30K | Bharat | 253 |
| DE Germany | — | 49,828 | 46K rec. | — | 1 | Barth | 191 |
| BE Belgium | #54 | 42,978 | 19K rec. | — | 6.6K | Baert | 150 |
| NL Netherlands | #89 | 30,738 | 36K rec. | 1 in 562 | 31K | Bart | 178 |
| GB United Kingdom | #994 | 25,365 | 22K rec. | — | 4 | Bart | 121 |
| US United States | — | 17,991 | 424K rec. | 1 in 18K | 18K | Bart | 401 |
| AU Australia | — | 12,432 | 12K rec. | — | 6 | Bart | 123 |
| CA Canada | — | 11,772 | 12K rec. | — | 1 | Bart | 117 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,944△ | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Bart | 62 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 4,379 | 369 rec. | — | — | Bhatt | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,114 | 925 rec. | — | 1.2K | Barth | 50 |
| IT Italy | — | 2,628 | 3.1K rec. | — | 10 | Bart | 37 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English257K54%
- Dutch89K19%
- Western Frisian57K12%
- Spanish11K2%
- German8.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 257,184 | 54% |
| Dutch | 89,037 | 19% |
| Western Frisian | 56,930 | 12% |
| Spanish | 11,177 | 2% |
| German | 8,593 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bart is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Germanic *bard- or *berht-, also place-name; sometimes 'the bearded one'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, short form of Bartelmew (Bartholomew); first attested Award Bart 1246 AssLa (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Award Bart 1246 AssLa; William Barte 1420 LLB I. A short form of Bartelmew (Bartholomew).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
From the whole of Baden in 1809.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 7 |
| 1881 | 11 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 11 |
| 1884 | 11 |
| 1885 | 10 |
| 1886 | 7 |
| 1887 | 9 |
| 1888 | 14 |
| 1889 | 11 |
| 1890 | 8 |
| 1891 | 5 |
| 1892 | 12 |
| 1893 | 7 |
| 1894 | 8 |
| 1895 | 10 |
| 1896 | 11 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1899 | 6 |
| 1900 | 9 |
| 1901 | 6 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 7 |
| 1904 | 6 |
| 1905 | 13 |
| 1906 | 8 |
| 1907 | 7 |
| 1909 | 7 |
| 1910 | 11 |
| 1911 | 16 |
| 1912 | 18 |
| 1913 | 22 |
| 1914 | 30 |
| 1915 | 17 |
| 1916 | 25 |
| 1917 | 33 |
| 1918 | 30 |
| 1919 | 26 |
| 1920 | 34 |
| 1921 | 42 |
| 1922 | 44 |
| 1923 | 32 |
| 1924 | 47 |
| 1925 | 38 |
| 1926 | 41 |
| 1927 | 36 |
| 1928 | 36 |
| 1929 | 43 |
| 1930 | 41 |
| 1931 | 42 |
| 1932 | 56 |
| 1933 | 41 |
| 1934 | 59 |
| 1935 | 36 |
| 1936 | 39 |
| 1937 | 54 |
| 1938 | 54 |
| 1939 | 71 |
| 1940 | 75 |
| 1941 | 76 |
| 1942 | 94 |
| 1943 | 106 |
| 1944 | 72 |
| 1945 | 76 |
| 1946 | 98 |
| 1947 | 126 |
| 1948 | 120 |
| 1949 | 112 |
| 1950 | 127 |
| 1951 | 103 |
| 1952 | 137 |
| 1953 | 179 |
| 1954 | 196 |
| 1955 | 317 |
| 1956 | 257 |
| 1957 | 269 |
| 1958 | 688 |
| 1959 | 1,022 |
| 1960 | 896 |
| 1961 | 753 |
| 1962 | 633 |
| 1963 | 657 |
| 1964 | 576 |
| 1965 | 497 |
| 1966 | 453 |
| 1967 | 535 |
| 1968 | 574 |
| 1969 | 552 |
| 1970 | 496 |
| 1971 | 457 |
| 1972 | 343 |
| 1973 | 303 |
| 1974 | 259 |
| 1975 | 275 |
| 1976 | 239 |
| 1977 | 203 |
| 1978 | 183 |
| 1979 | 215 |
| 1980 | 211 |
| 1981 | 175 |
| 1982 | 175 |
| 1983 | 110 |
| 1984 | 139 |
| 1985 | 121 |
| 1986 | 108 |
| 1987 | 94 |
| 1988 | 72 |
| 1989 | 58 |
| 1990 | 61 |
| 1991 | 28 |
| 1992 | 26 |
| 1993 | 29 |
| 1994 | 31 |
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 26 |
| 1997 | 15 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 134 years between 1880–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bart van der Leckb. 1876NLDutch painter, designer and ceramist (1876-1958)
- Bart Bermanb. 1938NLDutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music.
- Bartlett Giamattib. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball commissioner (1938–1989)
- Bart Ehrmanb. 1955USAmerican biblical scholar (born 1955)
- Bart Connerb. 1958USAmerican artistic gymnast and gymnastics coach (born 1958)
- Bart Somersb. 1964BEBelgian, Flemish politician; mayor of Mechelen
- Bart Freundlichb. 1970USdirector
- Bart De Weverb. 1970BEPrime Minister at Government of Belgium
- Bart Johnsonb. 1970USAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Bart Goorb. 1973BEBelgian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 284 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bart?
- We estimate roughly 55 thousand people bear Bart (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bart have the most bearers?
- Bart is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled bharat.
- How common is Bart compared with other names?
- In India, Bart is the 158th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Bart a male or female name?
- Bart is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Bart mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Bart, a shortened form of Bartholomew and variants; or different form of Barth (i).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bart” — the 158th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.