Bartolomeu

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Bartolomeu is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Bartholomew.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 19K
  • MZMozambique1 in 3.5K
  • AOAngola1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K

across 5 countries

Sources
98

16K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19K

Brazil

Meaning & origin

a male given name, equivalent to English Bartholomew

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Bartolomeu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil11,04514K rec.1 in 19K14KBartolomeu98
AO Angola#104518699 rec.1Bartolomeu31
PT Portugal292286 rec.listedBartolomeu54
US United States240564 rec.listedBartolomeu45
IN India7982 rec.Bartolomeu7
GB United Kingdom71142 rec.Bartolomeu24
ZA South Africa4951 rec.Bartolomeu6
MZ Mozambique#1504330 rec.Bartolomeu13
ES Spain4279 rec.39Bartolomeu17
VE Venezuela3048 rec.Bartolomeu7
AR Argentina2150 rec.2Bartolomeu14
DE Germany1527 rec.Bartolomeu15

Roughly 11K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 19K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages

  • Portuguese210K95%
  • English11K5%
  • French1981%
  • Spanish1571%
  • ptbr851%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese210,25095%
English11,2925%
French1981%
Spanish1571%
ptbr851%

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

Bartolomeu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname82 records spelled Bartolomeu4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Angola, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бартоломеу

49 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.

Over time

05K10K15K19401960198020002020

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Bartolomeu in IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), Brazil, 1930–2022
Yearrecords
19301
1940339
19501,432
19603,578
19706,258
19808,460
19909,836
200010,513
201010,832
202010,979
202211,045

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1400160018002000Bartolomeu Perestrello, b. 1400Bartolomeu Velho, b. 1501Bartholomew of Braga, b. 1514Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, b. 1672Bartolomeu de Gusmão, b. 1685Bartolo Longo, b. 1841Bartolomeu Anania, b. 1921Radu Gabrea, b. 1937Bartolomeu Jacinto Quissanga, b. 1991

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 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Bartolomeu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)14K#1,777
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)14K#602
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202211K
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)11K#1,591
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202011K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201011K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200011K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19909.8K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19808.5K
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)6.5K#1,835
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19706.3K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19603.6K

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 55 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bartolomeu?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Bartolomeu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Bartolomeu have the most bearers?
We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Bartolomeu in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bartolomeu.
How common is Bartolomeu compared with other names?
In Angola, Bartolomeu is the 104th most common given name of 9,234 given names recorded there.
Is Bartolomeu a male or female name?
Bartolomeu 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 Bartolomeu mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Bartholomew
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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, “Bartolomeu” — the 104th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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