Given name & surname · Greek
Βαρθολομαίος
“son of Tolmai”
Βαρθολομαίος (Vartholomaíos) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Greek.
GreekWritten in Greek script. In English: Bartholomew.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Βαρθολομαίος goes back to a word meaning “son of Tolmai.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Βαρθολομαίος comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Greek usage, Βαρθολομαίος developed from בר תלמי.
Βαρθολομαίος’s family of names
In Greek usage, Βαρθολομαίος developed from the Aramaic form בר תלמי. In Greek usage, Βαρθολομαίος has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bartholomew. In Greek usage, Βαρθολομαίος has a conventional equivalent in the French form Barthélémy.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Βαρθολομαίος has relatives in 19 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
Aramaicwhere Βαρθολομαίος comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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