German: from a pet form of the Germanic personal name
Bart, a short form of Berthold.
German,
Polish, Czech, and Slovak: from a pet form of a vernacular form of the
personal name Bartolomaeus, German Bartolomäus,
Polish Bartlomiej, Czech Bartolomej (see
Bartholomew).
Possibly also an Americanized form
of Slovenian Bartelj, from a vernacular form of the personal
name Bartolomej, LatinBartolomaeus (see
Bartholomew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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