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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Alsace), German, Czech, and Polish : from a vernacular pet form of the Latin personal name Bartolomaeus (see Bartholomew).
  • Americanized spelling of Norwegian Bakka, a variant of Bakke.

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