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Bartos Surname Meaning

Czech and Croatian (Bartoš); Slovak (mainly Bartoš); Polish (also Bartoś); Hungarian: from a pet form of local equivalents of the Latin personal name Bartholomaeus (Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak and Croatian Bartolomej, Polish Bartłomiej, Hungarian Bartalan, an archaic variant of Bertalan); see Bartholomew.

The surname Bartoš is also found in Serbia (Vojvodina), where it is of Hungarian, Czech, and/or Slovak origin. In Croatia, it is largely of Czech origin.

The surname Bartos is also found in Germany. The homonymous Sorbian cognate Bartoš is found in a Germanized form only (see Bartosch).

American shortened (and altered) form of Polish Bartosiewicz and Bartoszewski, and probably also of some other surnames ultimately derived from the Latin personal name Bartholomaeus (see 1 and Bartosz).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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You can see how Bartos families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Bartos family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Bartos families were found in USA in 1920. In 1911 there were 6 Bartos families living in Nova Scotia. This was about 50% of all the recorded Bartos's in Canada. Nova Scotia had the highest population of Bartos families in 1911.

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Between 1944 and 2004, in the United States, Bartos life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1944, and highest in 2000. The average life expectancy for Bartos in 1944 was 34, and 77 in 2004.

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