Barth

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Barth is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Belgium it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From a medieval German nickname for a bearded man, from MHG bart ‘beard’; or from Barth, Pomerania; or different form of Bart (i).

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 7 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
401 ●

1.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 562 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

BharatLatin · Hindi●1.3M records
ভরতBengali · Bangla●1.2K records
บาร์ทThai · Thai●38 records
바트Hangul · Korean●4 records
ଭାରତOdia · Odia●2 records
భారతTelugu · Telugu●1 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bart in US United States, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 8 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 a medieval German nickname for a bearded man, from MHG bart ‘beard’; or from Barth, Pomerania; or different form of Bart (i).

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Barth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#1582,356,4911.1M rec.—30KBharat253
DE Germany—49,82846K rec.—1Barth191
BE Belgium#5442,97819K rec.—6.6KBaert150
NL Netherlands#8930,73836K rec.1 in 56231KBart178
GB United Kingdom#99425,36522K rec.—4Bart121
US United States—17,991424K rec.1 in 18K18KBart401
AU Australia—12,43212K rec.—6Bart123
CA Canada—11,77212K rec.—1Bart117
ES Spain—4,944△1.7K rec.1 in 10K4.9KBart62
PK Pakistan—4,379369 rec.——Bhatt26
CH Switzerland—3,114925 rec.—1.2KBarth50
IT Italy—2,6283.1K rec.—10Bart37

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English124K50%
  • German61K25%
  • French17K7%
  • Portuguese13K5%
  • Spanish8.8K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English123,76750%
German61,38125%
French16,9857%
Portuguese12,9505%
Spanish8,8334%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Barth is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname29K records spelled Barth4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Argentina, Costa Rica

    Languages: French, Spanish, Catalan

    Also written Bàrth

  • a separate surname4.3K records spelled Barth2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Bárth

  • Polish surname1.9K records spelled Barth5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Bárth

  • Serbian surname389 records spelled Barth106 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Montenegro, Poland, Croatia

    Languages: Serbian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Bar, Burr, Bart, Берр, Bard

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Barth 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 English, A place of shelter for cattle.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Übername zu mhd./mnd. bart 'Bart'; auch möglich aus Kurzformen von Bartholomäus/Barthold oder Wohnstättenname. Bearer count: 14526.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufnamen mit ahd. beraht / altsächs. ber(e)ht, z. B. Bart-; 16 Typen, 16494 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname aus einem Rufnamen der Bart-/Bert-Form; Varianten: Barthel, Bartl.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Meinhard/Meginhard (mhd. megin ‚Kraft‘ + hart ‚hart, stark‘).

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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●

010203019201930194019501960197026 · 1955

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Barth in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1916–1976
Yearrecords
19166
19185
19225
19285
19296
19317
19325
19357
19367
19377
19387
19405
19415
19425
194312
19448
19455
19468
19478
19488
19495
19508
19519
19528
195317
195416
195526
195626
195716
195818
195911
196019
196123
196220
196323
196418
196513
196610
19679
196810
196911
19716
19725
19755
19767

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1916–1976. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

175018001850190019502000Christian Gottlob Barth, b. 1799Heinrich Barth, b. 1821Karl Heinrich Barth, b. 1847Antonie Barth, b. 1871Emil Barth, b. 1879Karl Barth, b. 1886Fredrik Barth, b. 1928John Barth, b. 1930Erika Zuchold, b. 1947Jessica Barth, b. 1980

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 44 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Barth
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,474
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,322
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202014K#2,605
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.2K#1,910
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.2K#1,001
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—694#1,801
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007524#3,686
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951511—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961480—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941455—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020396#24,147
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971396—

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 116 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Barth?
We estimate roughly 55 thousand people bear Barth (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Barth have the most bearers?
Barth is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled bharat.
How common is Barth compared with other names?
In India, Barth is the 158th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Barth mean?
Recorded meaning: From a medieval German nickname for a bearded man, from MHG bart ‘beard’; or from Barth, Pomerania; or different form of Bart (i).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barth” — the 158th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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