Given name & surname
Bartley
“from the meadow of birch trees”
Bartley is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the meadow of birch trees.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the meadow of birch trees.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1886. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bartley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,933
- 1,933 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 68 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 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 68 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,160 as a first name in 2020; 16,016 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.
Bartley’s family of names
Bartley is a short form of Bartholomew. Bartley has a related form in Bartlea. Bartley has a related form in Bartleah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bartley
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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