Submitted Name Revision 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)