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Bartolomeo

Boys' name

Son + Talmai; Ptolemy

Bartolomeo has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1914, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Bartolomeo, 1970

1 in 721,000

Bartolomeo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bartolomeo: meaning, origin, and history

Son + Talmai; Ptolemy

Ancient Greek

What Bartolomeo means

Bartolomeo means “son + Talmai; Ptolemy”, associated with ברא and תלמי.

Origin, language, and formation

Bartolomeo is used in Esperanto and Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Bartolomeo comes through Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος and Aramaic בר תלמי.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bartholomew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Bartolomeo is pronounced /bartoloˈmeo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 boys were recorded with the name Bartolomeo between 1914 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1914; its best national rank was #2,115 in 1914.

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 Bartolomeo?

Bartolomeo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,606,302 births
Among boys only
1 in 372,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1970
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bartolomeo 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 1970 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 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bartolomeo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bartolomeos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bartolomeo was born before 1917 — so the typical Bartolomeo is around 108 today.

Median birth year
1917
About 108 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10
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1910s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Bartolomeo 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 1914 (10)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,115
1914

Spellings of Bartolomeo

Bartolomeo is not the most common spelling — Bartholomew is, with 99.0% against Bartolomeo's 0.97%.

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 Bartolomeo is used

Across 1910–2025, Bartolomeo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Bartolomeo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bartolomeo around the world

Where Bartolomeo 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.

  • France
    1925–1969
    #1,958
    in 1969
  • South Australia
    1958–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bartolomeo 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
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Best rank ever
#2,115
1914
Peak year
1914
10 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bartolomeo

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

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Sibling names for Bartolomeo

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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