Bart is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “son of talmai.” In England & Wales it was given to 4 boys in 2025.
Bart at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian · English & American · German
Meaning
“son of talmai”
Pronunciation
/bɑɹt/
Also spelled
Bartholomew
About the name Bart
Bart belongs to the Biblical & Christian and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “son of talmai” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Bartholomew.
In the United States, Bart first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #249 in 1959, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 16,357 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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