Given name & surname · also Latin
Bartolomé
“tolmai”·“bar”
Bartolomé is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Spanish.
Original LatinBartholomaeus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bartolomé is built from elements meaning “tolmai” and “bar”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Bartolomé 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)
Bartolomé’s family of names
Bartolomé shares a linguistic root with Bartholomew. In Spanish usage, Bartolomé has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Bartolomeo. In Spanish usage, Bartolomé has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bartholomew.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bartolomé has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
11 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bartolomé
- Bartolomeu DiasPortuguese explorer1467–1500
- Bartolomé Esteban MurilloSpanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
- Bartolomé de las CasasSpanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)1484–1566
- Bartolomé Mitrepresident of Argentina (1821-1906), writer, politician
- Benny MoréCuban singer (1916–1963)
- Bartolomé BermejoSpanish artist (1440-1500)
- Bartolomé CarranzaRoman Catholic archbishop1503–1576
- Tintín MárquezSpanish football player/managerborn 1962
- Bartolomé BlanchePresident of Chile (1879-1970)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Bixio
“gray, grey”
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