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Meaning & History
This name was apparently invented by the 19th-century writer Herman Melville, who perhaps intended it to mean "Bartholomew's town" from the medieval English name Bartle, a diminutive of Bartholomew, combined with the English place name suffix by meaning "farm, settlement" from Old Norse býr (compare Darby, Colby and Willoughby).(Additionally, Melville may have been inspired by the similar-sounding name Barnaby.)(Source: clevelandkentevans)