Bartholomew
Bartholomew is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. Its best rank was 481st, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 196975 births
- Best rank
- #481in 1885
- Since 1880
- 4,232people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,232 boys have been named Bartholomew in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1969, with 75 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1970s alone account for 14%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bartholomew | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87 | |
| 1890s | 78 | |
| 1900s | 52 | |
| 1910s | 290 | |
| 1920s | 345 | |
| 1930s | 251 | |
| 1940s | 318 | |
| 1950s | 437 | |
| 1960s | 447 | |
| 1970s | 597 | |
| 1980s | 558 | |
| 1990s | 271 | |
| 2000s | 151 | |
| 2010s | 194 | |
| 2020s | 156 |
In 1969, its biggest year
Bartholomew was the 880th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1969 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1969.
Names that rose and fell with Bartholomew
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fritzpeak 1956
- Hanspeak 1970
- Antonpeak 1915
- Corneliuspeak 1974
- Chaunceypeak 1981
- Clevelandpeak 1947
- Guypeak 1957
- Alonzopeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.