Bartholomew

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Bartłomiej in PL Poland, NL Netherlands, CZ Czechia and 6 more.

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●

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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●

Bartholomew 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, Hebrew ‘son of Talmai’ (‘abounding in furrows’); first attested Bartholomeus canonicus 12th DC (Nt)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, Bartholomeus canonicus 12th DC (Nt); Robert Bartelmeu 1273 RH (Hu); Nicholas Bertelmev 1296 SRSx; Walter Berthelmeu 1334 LLB E. Bartholomew, Hebrew ‘son of Talmai’ (‘abounding in furrows’), a common medieval name, with numerous diminutives.

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• Hebrew, ‘son of Talmai’, rendered in Irish as Pathalon, and Bairtliméad. Parthalon (English Partholon) is a native name. It is the name of a legendary early settler in Ireland. Bartley [Beartla/] (m) A variant of Bartholomew.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In English, An Apostle, identified with Nathanael. (biblical character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Hebrew; hill furrow

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Joseph Bartholomewb. 1766USAmerican military officer and politician (1766-1840)
• William Bartholomewb. 1793GBBritish librettist, composer, and writer (1793–1867)
• John George Bartholomewb. 1860GBBritish cartographer (1860-1920) and founder of Edinburgh Geographical Institute and later Collins Bartholomew (1860–1920)
• Dave Bartholomewb. 1918USAmerican musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer (1918–2019)
• John Christopher Bartholomewb. 1923GBBritish cartographer and geographer (1923-2008)
• Freddie Bartholomewb. 1924GBAmerican actor (1924–1992)
• Summer Bartholomewb. 1951USAmerican actress
• Wayne Bartholomewb. 1954AUAustralian surfer
• Pablo Bartholomewb. 1955INIndian photographer (born 1955)
• Logan Bartholomewb. 1984USAmerican actor

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bartholomew?

We estimate roughly 128 thousand people bear Bartholomew (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Bartholomew have the most bearers?

We estimate about 126 thousand people bear Bartholomew in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bartłomiej.

Where is Bartholomew most common?

Bartholomew is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 304 people carrying it.

How common is Bartholomew compared with other names?

In Poland, Bartholomew is the 114th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.

What does the name Bartholomew mean?

Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Bartholomew, via Latin from Aramaic bar-Talmay ‘son of Talmay’; also from Gaelic Mac Pharthaldin.