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Bartosz

From a Slavic root meaning "son of the ploughman". Given only to boys, it peaked in the 2000s and has been sliding since, though a Bartosz is still someone almost everyone knows.

Bartosz Pronunciation

Bartosz is pronounced BAHR-tosh (/ˈbartɔʂ/).

Alive in 2025
204,697
Newborns 2025
668
National rank
#63
Next name day
24 August
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What Bartosz means

Where Bartosz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Bartosz grew out of Bartłomiej, the Polish form of Bartholomew, and behind that older name sits the Aramaic bar-Talmai, meaning son of Talmai. Talmai has long been read as a word for furrows or ploughed ground, and that reading gives Bartosz the meaning it keeps in Polish today: son of the ploughman, syn oracza. The soil came into the name later.

Bartek is the everyday diminutive. On the school roll a boy is Bartosz; on the break between lessons the whole class calls him Bartek.

One bearer fixed the name in Polish memory. Bartosz Głowacki was a peasant from near Kraków who, during the 1794 uprising, ran at a Russian cannon at the Battle of Racławice and smothered its fuse with his cap, then turned the gun. Tadeusz Kościuszko made him an officer for it and granted him the surname Głowacki. So the ploughman in the name met a real man who left the plough to fight, and the plain sense holds: son of the ploughman.

When Bartosz celebrates name day

Bartosz appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 24 August.

Next name day
24 August
Tuesday in 2027
Next one in 348 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Bartosz

1 in 104 men in Poland is named Bartosz. 204,697 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #63 among male names.

People with the name Bartosz 2019 → 2025
204,697 +7,047 since 2019
2020 198,792 +1,142
2021 200,719 +1,927
2022 202,162 +1,443
2023 203,309 +1,147
2024 204,121 +812
2025 204,697 +576

Bartosz's popularity over time

668 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #87 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #63 name among living men, even as it slips to #87 among newborns.

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668 newborns with the name Bartosz in 2025
national rank #87 that year

Where Bartosz is most popular

Bartosz is most popular in Podlaskie, 51% above the national average (455 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+34%) and Silesian (+25%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Lesser Poland, 24% and 20% below average respectively.

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Bartosz as a middle name

Bartosz is a first name for 204,697 men in Poland and a middle name for another 28,854, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 75th, between Witold (29,178) and Włodzimierz (28,496).

As a first name
204,697
As a middle name
28,854
first name 88% middle name 12%
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