Given name & surname
Bartek
Bartek is a surname. It is used in English, Polish, Czech, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Bartek isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bartek through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 59
- 59 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 166 as a first name in 2020; 1,444 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bartek’s family of names
In Polish usage, Bartek is a diminutive of Bartosz. In Polish usage, Bartek has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bart. In Polish usage, Bartek has a conventional equivalent in the English form BARTY.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bartek
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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