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Bartek

Boys' name

Diminutive of Bartłomiej

Bartek has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Bartek, 2011

1 in 610,000

Bartek over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bartek: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Bartłomiej

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bartek means

Bartek is a diminutive of Bartłomiej.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bartek is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbar.tɛk/ for Bartek.

Origin, language, and formation

Bartek is used in Czech, Polish and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bartłomiej and Bartosz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Bartek is pronounced [ˈbartɛk].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Bartek between 2001 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,662 in 2007.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bartek?

Bartek had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bartek sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bartek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barteks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bartek was born before 2006 — so the typical Bartek is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
89.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
59
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Choose a decade

2000s — 89.8% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Bartek rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (12)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,662
2007

Spellings of Bartek

Bartek is not the most common spelling — Carter is, with 67.8% against Bartek's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bartek is used

Across 1910–2025, Bartek was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 426,724 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bartek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bartek around the world

Where Bartek ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2021
    #2,730
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Bartek by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,662
2007
Peak year
2007
12 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bartek

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BarrenBarkotBarlowBarisBarlasBarkonBarokBarnesBarucBardiaBarackBarakaBaraaBartowBaranBarkerBarrickBarettaBarukBarriBarreBarettBarleyBardo

Sibling names for Bartek

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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