Bartels
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from Berthold with strong genitive -s; shows morph
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɑɹtəɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bartels is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.7K
- USUnited States1 in 38K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymic from Berthold with strong genitive -s; shows morph. variant of patronymic formation. Bearer count: 7687.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bartels 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #297 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Bartels | 181 |
| US United States | — | 8,809 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Bartels | 381 |
| NL Netherlands | #412 | 3,655 | 1 in 4.7K | 3.7K | Bartels | 76 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Bartels | 28 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Bartels | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | #469 | 276 | 1 in 18K | 276 | Bartels | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 230 | 1 in 26K | 230 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-2 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Bartels 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 German, aus dem Rufnamen Bartel/Barthold; Patronym zu Bartholomäus oder berht-Namen
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Johann Christian Martin Bartelsb. 1769DEGerman mathematician (1769–1836)
- Hans von Bartelsb. 1856DEGerman artist (1856-1913)
- Adolf Bartelsb. 1862DEGerman writer (1862–1945)
- Julius Bartelsb. 1899DEGerman geophysicist and statistician (1899–1964)
- Wolfgang Bartelsb. 1940DEalpine skier (1940–2007)
- Knud Bartelsb. 1952DKDanish general
- Hans-Peter Bartelsb. 1961DEGerman politician
- Michael Bartelsb. 1968DEGerman racecar driver
- Fin Bartelsb. 1987DEGerman footballer
- Jayden Bartelsb. 2004USAmerican actress and singer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.8K | #4,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.4K | #4,096 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 3.7K | #271 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 276 | #852 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 230 | #2,151 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Bartels come from?
- Patronymic from Berthold with strong genitive -s; shows morph. variant of patronymic formation. Bearer count: 7687. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Bartels?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑɹtəɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bartels mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic from Berthold with strong genitive -s; shows morph.
- In which country does Bartels have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Bartels in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bartels.
- How common is the name Bartels?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,809 people named Bartels in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Bartels compared with other names?
- In Germany, Bartels is the 297th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bartelsThe 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, “Bartels” — the 297th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.