Bartholomeus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑr.toː.loː.møːs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bartholomeus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 31K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 66K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
10,790 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 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 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Bartholomeus | 11 |
| NA Namibia | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 322 | Bartholomeus | 29 |
| DE Germany | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 1 | Bartholomeus | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | 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
- Bartholomew V. Welserb. 1484DEnot in their usual nameGerman banker
- Bartholomeus de Momperb. 1535BEFlemish publisher, printer, painter, draughtsman and art dealer
- Bartholomeus Mercatorb. 1540BEcartographer
- Bartholomeus Sprangerb. 1546BEFlemish painter (1546–1611)
- Bartholomeus van Bassenb. 1590NLDutch painter (1590-1652)
- Bartlomiej Strobelb. 1591PLnot in their usual namePolish artist and painter of German descent (1591-1647)
- Bartholomeus Breenberghb. 1598NL17th-century Dutch painter
- Bartholomeus van der Helstb. 1613NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1613–1670)
- Bartholomeus van Hoveb. 1790NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1790-1880)
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 11K | #207 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5.8K | #624 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 125 | #4,848 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,371 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 2 | #27 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2012 | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bartholomeus?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑr.toː.loː.møːs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Bartholomeus a male or female name?
- Bartholomeus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- 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.
- In which country does Bartholomeus have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.