Bart
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the male personal name Bart, a shortened form of Bartholomew and variants; or different form of Barth (i)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɹt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bart is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 448(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 561
- PKPakistan≈1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bart itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- #859 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 460 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 448 (inferred from the name graph)
30,829 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bhatt in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates, Bharat in ID Indonesia and Barth in IE Ireland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the male personal name Bart, a shortened form of Bartholomew and variants; or different form of Barth (i).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bart counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #20 | 30,829 | 1 in 561 | 31K | Bart | 196 |
| BE Belgium | #42 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 6.6K | Bart | 175 |
| US United States | — | 18,045as India | 1 in 18K | 18K | Bart | 460 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bhatt | 29 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Bharat | 38 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,944as India | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Bart | 56 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Bhatt | 62 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Barth | 53 |
30,829 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bart is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Germanic *bard- or *berht-, also place-name; sometimes 'the bearded one'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, short form of Bartelmew (Bartholomew); first attested Award Bart 1246 AssLa (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Award Bart 1246 AssLa; William Barte 1420 LLB I. A short form of Bartelmew (Bartholomew).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
From the whole of Baden in 1809.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bart van der Leckb. 1876NLDutch painter, designer and ceramist (1876-1958)
- Bart Bermanb. 1938NLDutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music.
- Bartlett Giamattib. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball commissioner (1938–1989)
- Bart Ehrmanb. 1955USAmerican biblical scholar (born 1955)
- Bart Connerb. 1958USAmerican artistic gymnast and gymnastics coach (born 1958)
- Bart Somersb. 1964BEBelgian, Flemish politician; mayor of Mechelen
- Bart Freundlichb. 1970USdirector
- Bart De Weverb. 1970BEPrime Minister at Government of Belgium
- Bart Johnsonb. 1970USAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Bart Goorb. 1973BEBelgian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 31K | #76 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 26K | #101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,983 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 91 | #5,842 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 83 | #18,274 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 76 | #9,095 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 66 | #241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #1,983 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bart mean, and where does it come from?
- From the male personal name Bart, a shortened form of Bartholomew and variants; or different form of Barth (i). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Bart a male or female name?
- Bart is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Bart?
- In the etymology graph, Bartosz, Bartolomeu and Bartek are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Bartholomeus.
- How do you pronounce Bart?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɹt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bart have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Bart, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bart.
- How common is the name Bart?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 30,829 people named Bart, about 1 in 561 residents.
- How common is Bart compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bart is the 20th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bartThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bart” — the 20th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.