Bartholome
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bartholome has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1953, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Bartholome, 1956
1 in 824,000
Bartholome over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bartholome?
Bartholome had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1956
- 1 in 824,000
- 5 of 4,122,003 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 423,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1956
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 571,432 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bartholome sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1956 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 571,432 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bartholome. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bartholomes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bartholome was born before 1953 — so the typical Bartholome is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 23
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Bartholome 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1953 (8)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.5% average annual change
Spellings of Bartholome
Bartholome is not the most common spelling — Bartholomew is, with 99.5% against Bartholome's 0.54%.
- Bartholomew99.5%4,271
- Bartholome0.54%23
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.
Bartholome around the world
Where Bartholome 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.
- France1916–2025#5,565in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Bartholome by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bartholome
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bartholome
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.