Bartley

Where Bartley comes from

Bartley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1843
    Bartley Campbell born
    American playwright
  2. 1886
    Debut at its peak, #647
    #647 among boys with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1949
    Bartley P. Griffith born
    American heart surgeon
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Bartley P. Griffith · American heart surgeon, born 1949
  • Bartley Campbell · American playwright, 1843–1888
  • Bartley Crum · American lawyer and writer, 1900–1959

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.