Boy name origins & meanings
- Hebrew : Furrow
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Bart, a short form of Berthold.
- German, Polish, Czech, and Slovak : from a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Bartolomaeus, German Bartolomäus, Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj (see Bartholomew).
- Possibly also an Americanized form of Slovenian Bartelj, from a vernacular form of the personal name Bartolomej, LatinBartolomaeus (see Bartholomew).