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All around the world, Ptolemy (Ptolemy , תלמי , Птолемей ) is a very rare primarily male, but very seldom girly first name. The forename Ptolemy is characteristic of Tanzania, where it is a very rare masculine name, and the United States, where it is an extremely rare largely boy's, but uncommonly female name. More prevalently, Ptolemy is the last name as well as the forename.
Ptolemy is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Ptolemy , the mythological king of Thebes and Ptolemy , character in Bartimaeus Sequence.