Names

Means “ear of wheat” in Turkish. This is also the Turkish name for the constellation Virgo.

Means “lord of the woods” from Basque baso “woods” and jaun “lord”. This is the name of a character in Basque folklore, the Old Man of the Woods.

Short form of Sebastiaan.

Hebrew form of Baruch.

Belarusian form of Boris.

Means “blessed” in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a companion of the prophet Jeremiah, acting as his scribe and assistant. The deuterocanonical Book of Baruch was supposedly written by him. A famous bearer was Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), a Dutch-Jewish rationalist philosopher.

Polish form of Bartholomew.

Portuguese and Galician form of Bartholomew.

Catalan form of Bartholomew, most common on the Balearic Islands.

Slovak and Croatian form of Bartholomew.