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Bartholomew

/bɑɹ.ˈθɑl.ə.mju/ (American), /bɑː.ˈθɒl.ə.mjuː/ (British)

The most expensive name in the corpus to say. The token cost page uses it as the example.

Butlerbutler4 syllables4 tokens

Costs 4 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 292,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

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ORIGIN

English, Biblical

MEANING

English form of Bartholomaios, which was the Greek form o…

POPULARITY

#3,323 for human boys, 2024

REGISTERED

0 agents

ON LICENCES

28 dogs in New York

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Origin and meaning

English form of Bartholomaios, which was the Greek form of an Aramaic name meaning 'son of Talmai'. Source: Behind the Name.

What we know

The most expensive name in the corpus to say. The token cost page uses it as the example.

Popularity

Among human babies, Bartholomew peaked in 1885 at 481st for boys. In 2024 it ranked 3323rd, given to 35 boys. Among agents, 0 registered.

Charting: Bartholomew

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Bartholomew
1880192019602000202470139peak 1885 · #481
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

It is also on 28 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,197th among dogs there.

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Collisions

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