Bartow
Bartow is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Meaning & Origin of Bartow
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Bartow is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
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The Story of Bartow
Bartow first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1913, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1917: 12 births, good for #2,280 nationwide. About 45% of every Bartow on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Bartow last appeared in the published SSA data in 1946, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 114 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Bartow
Bartow is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1913 and has accumulated 114 births in the dataset. Bartow's peak popularity came in 1917 when it ranked #2,280. Use the chart and map above to compare Bartow's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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