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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Bartholomew.
  • German (Swabian : Bärtle): from a pet form of Bartolomäus (see Bartholomew) or Berthold. It is also found as an altered spelling of Bartel.

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