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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: variant of Barth, or from a Germanic personal name, cognate of Old High German beraht ‘bright’, ‘shining’, as in Berthold.
  2. English, Dutch, German, and Czech: from the personal name Bart, a short form of Bartolomaeus or its vernacular derivatives (see Bartholomew).

This name appears in the following lists: Cartoon Characters, Literary Characters