Given name & surname · also Latin
Bartłomiej
“tolmai”·“bar”
Bartłomiej is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Polish.
Original LatinBartholomeus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bartłomiej is built from elements meaning “tolmai” and “bar”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Bartłomiej comes from Latin, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Bartholomaeus, from Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος, from Aramaic בר תלמי (bar tolmai), built from Aramaic תלמי (“tolmai”) + בר (“bar”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bartłomiej’s family of names
In Polish usage, Bartłomiej has a diminutive in BARTEK. In Polish usage, Bartłomiej has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bartholomew. In Polish usage, Bartłomiej has a related form in Bartosz.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bartłomiej has relatives in 20 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
30 related names in 20 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 29
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- BartholomeusLatin
- BartholomæusLatin
- BartholomaeusLatin
- BartholomewEnglish
- Bartoloequivalent
- BartolomeoItalian, Esperanto
- Bartomeuequivalent
- Perttuequivalent
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- Bartolommeoequivalent
- BarthélémyFrench
- BartholomäusGerman
- Botółwym
- Biötułwym
- Buø̄tułwym
- Buötułwym
- BertalanHungarian
- ВарфоломійUkrainian
- Βαρθολομαῖοςgr
- BartolomejSlovak
- БартломейRussian
- ВарфоломейRussian
- BartolomeuPortuguese
- ԲարդուղիմեոսArmenian
- ΒαρθολομαίοςGreek
- BartoloméSpanish
- BarthélemyFrench
- BartolomějCzech
- ВартоломейBulgarian
- ВарфаламейBelarusian
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bartłomiej
- Bartłomiej DrągowskiPolish association football playerborn 1997
- Bartłomiej PawełczakPolish rowerborn 1982
- Bartłomiej MaciejaPolish chess playerborn 1977
- Bartłomiej BonkPolish weightlifterborn 1984
- Bartłomiej SienkiewiczPolish politician (born 1961)
- Bartłomiej PawłowskiPolish association football player (born 1992)
- Bartłomiej JaszkaPolish handball playerborn 1983
- Bartłomiej TopaPolish actorborn 1967
- Bartłomiej Matysiakcyclistborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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