Bartłomiej
From the Hebrew for "son of Talmai". Around 126,000 Polish men carry it, enough that you almost certainly know one, but it's given to fewer boys every year and slipping off the newborn lists.
Bartłomiej Pronunciation
Bartłomiej is pronounced bahrt-WOM-yey (/bartˈwɔmjɛj/).
What Bartłomiej means
Where Bartłomiej comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Bartłomiej reaches back to Hebrew, to Bar-Talmai, which means son of Talmai. Talmai itself points to the furrow a plough cuts, so the Polish gloss reads syn oracza, son of the ploughman. The apostle Bartholomew carried this name into the Christian calendar, and Polish speakers reshaped it to their own mouths.
From that long form come the everyday versions. Bartosz stands as a variant, a name in its own right on a school register. Bartek is the diminutive a teacher calls across the classroom.
His name-day falls on 24 August, the feast of Saint Bartholomew, an old marker in the Polish year. Farmers once read that day's weather for hints about the coming autumn. The origin is Hebrew. A boy named Bartłomiej meets his patron there, and he meets the older picture too, the ploughman turning earth behind the sense of son of Talmai.
When Bartłomiej celebrates name day
Bartłomiej appears 15 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 24 August.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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in 90 days23 JanuarySaturday in 2027
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in 110 days12 FebruaryFriday in 2027
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in 115 days17 FebruaryWednesday in 2027
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in 178 days21 AprilWednesday in 2027
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in 187 days30 AprilFriday in 2027
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in 193 days6 MayThursday in 2027
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in 253 days5 JulyMonday in 2027
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in 264 days16 JulyFriday in 2027
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in 313 days3 SeptemberFriday in 2027
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in 345 days5 OctoberTuesday in 2027
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in 363 days23 OctoberSaturday in 2027
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in 17 days11 NovemberWednesday in 2026
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in 41 days5 DecemberSaturday in 2026
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in 63 days27 DecemberSunday in 2026
How many people are named Bartłomiej
1 in 170 men in Poland is named Bartłomiej. 125,918 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #111 among male names.
Bartłomiej's popularity over time
348 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #139 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #111 name among living men, even as it slips to #139 among newborns.
Where parents choose Bartłomiej
Bartłomiej is most popular in Lesser Poland, 95% above the national average (939 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+71%) and Holy Cross (+41%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Lubusz, 70% and 51% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland
+95%1 in 242 babies
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Lublin
+71%1 in 276 babies
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Holy Cross
+41%1 in 334 babies
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Greater Poland
−70%1 in 1,560 babies
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Lubusz
−51%1 in 955 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−45%1 in 855 babies
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Lesser Poland+95% 939 born1 in 242 babies+95%
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Lublin+71% 372 born1 in 276 babies+71%
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Holy Cross+41% 166 born1 in 334 babies+41%
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Subcarpathian+39% 357 born1 in 338 babies+39%
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Silesian+32% 636 born1 in 358 babies+32%
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Łódź+7% 289 born1 in 438 babies+7%
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Podlaskie−9% 127 born1 in 518 babies−9%
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Masovian−12% 661 born1 in 536 babies−12%
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Opole−15% 83 born1 in 555 babies−15%
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Lower Silesian−28% 239 born1 in 657 babies−28%
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Warmian-Masurian−29% 108 born1 in 665 babies−29%
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West Pomeranian−40% 107 born1 in 789 babies−40%
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Pomeranian−41% 185 born1 in 796 babies−41%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−45% 128 born1 in 855 babies−45%
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Lubusz−51% 52 born1 in 955 babies−51%
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Greater Poland−70% 138 born1 in 1,560 babies−70%
Bartłomiej as a middle name
Bartłomiej is a first name for 125,918 men in Poland and a middle name for another 35,214, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 68th, between Eugeniusz (39,139) and Bogusław (34,860).
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#66 Arkadiusz39,185
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#67 Eugeniusz39,139
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#68 Bartłomiej35,214
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#69 Bogusław34,860
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#70 Filip33,718