Bart
Just 127 Polish men carry it, so most people here will never meet one. Germanic at root, the name traces back to "son of Talmai".
Bart Pronunciation
Bart is pronounced BAHRT (/bart/).
What Bart means
Where Bart comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bart is a short form with Germanic footing. Across German and Dutch it clipped longer names down, and in Poland it stands in for Bartłomiej. In the Low Countries Bart works as a full given name on its own. One syllable does the work of four.
The fuller name reaches back to Aramaic bar-Talmai, meaning son of Talmai. Bart holds onto that sense. In Polish the meaning comes out as syn oracza, son of the plowman, because Talmai has been linked to a word for furrows. The plowman arrived through that reading of Talmai.
Bartholomew stood among the twelve apostles. The apostle gave the name its long life in Christian Europe. His feast falls on 24 August. A boy named Bart keeps that imieniny in Poland, his name written short on the class register beside the longer Bartłomiej.
How many people are named Bart
1 in 168080 men in Poland is named Bart. 127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2953 among male names.
Bart's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Bart as a middle name
Bart is a first name for 127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1782nd, between Bao (23) and Binh (23).
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#1780 Zaki24
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#1781 Bao23
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#1782 Bart23
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#1783 Binh23
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#1784 Bolko23