Bartholomeus
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: ECN Government Gazette 8791, 2025
/bɑr.toː.loː.møːs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Bartholomeus is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 10,790 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 72Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 160Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
10,790 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bartholomeus
- Dutch:/bɑr.toː.loː.møːs/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Indonesian:/bartholomɛus/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bartholomeus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 10,790 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Bartholomeus | 54 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Bartholomeus | 11 |
| BE Belgium | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 157K | 322 | Bartholomeus | 29 |
| DE Germany | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 1 | Bartholomeus | 24 |
| US United States | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Bartholomeus | 42 |
| SE Sweden | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | 2 |
| NA Namibia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 170K | 2 | — | 2 |
10,790 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bartholomeus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, Bartholomew, a disciple of Jesus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Bartholomew Anglicusb. 1203not in their usual name13th-century scholastic scholar, author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum
- Bartholomeus Sprangerb. 1546BEFlemish painter (1546–1611)
- Bartholomeus van der Helstb. 1613NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1613–1670)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Bartholomeus?
- In the etymology graph, Bart, Bartosz and Bartolomeu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bartholomeus?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /bɑr.toː.loː.møːs/; in Indonesian /bartholomɛus/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Bartholomeus a male or female name?
- Bartholomeus is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Bartholomeus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Bartholomeus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bartholomeus. After it come South Africa, Belgium, Germany and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bartholomeus most common?
- Bartholomeus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bartholomeus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10,790 people named Bartholomeus, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bartholomeus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bartholomeusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bartholomeus” — ranked 207th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.