Bartholomew

Bartholomew is the 2,398th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,811 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,811
Rank: 2,398th
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 5.0

Where the name comes from

From Latin Bartholomaeus, from Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος, from Aramaic בר תלמי (“son of Talmai; son of Ptolemy”), from בר (“son”) and תלמי (“Talmai; Ptolemy”). It has long been unclear whether the Apostle's father was named after the biblical Talmai, king of Geshur, or one of the Greek Ptolemies, as the two originally unrelated names were conflated in Jewish Aramaic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bartholomew described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bartholomew

Freddie Bartholomew (1924–1992)American actor
Peter Bartholomew (1075–1099)French monk
Dave Bartholomew (1918–2019)American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer
Ken Bartholomew (1920–2012)American speed skater
John George Bartholomew (1860–1920)British cartographer (1860-1920) and founder of Edinburgh Geographical Institute and later Collins Bartholomew

People named Bartholomew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bartholomew

Also a first name

Bartholomew has been given to 4,271 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1969. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.