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Bartolo

#7,251 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Bartholomew

Bartolo has been given to 912 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #7,251 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Bartolo, 2025

1 in 301,000

Bartolo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bartolo: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Bartholomew

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bartolo means

Bartolo is a short form of Bartholomew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bartolo → Bartholomew. The family’s proposed meaning is “son + Talmai; Ptolemy”, recorded in English with the source elements בר and תלמי.

Origin, language, and formation

Bartolo is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bartholomew and Bartolomé.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Bartolo is pronounced /baɾˈtolo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 912 boys were recorded with the name Bartolo between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,479 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,839 in 2020 to #7,251 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,821 in 2015 to #7,251 in 2025.

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 Bartolo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,251
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bartolo 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bartolo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bartolos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bartolo was born before 1961 — so the typical Bartolo is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
546
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Choose a decade

1920s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Bartolo 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
+1,841
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,588
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,570
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.3%
Peak was 1921 (26)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,479
1921

Spellings of Bartolo

Bartolo is not the most common spelling — Barton is, with 91.1% against Bartolo's 8.9%.

  • Barton91.1%9,371
  • Bartolo8.9%912

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 Bartolo is used

Across 1910–2025, Bartolo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 349,365 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Bartolo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bartolo around the world

Where Bartolo 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.

  • South Australia
    1966–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bartolo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,251
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,588
Best rank ever
#1,479
1921
Peak year
1921
26 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
912
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Bartolo

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

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Sibling names for Bartolo

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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