In Croatia, Bartolome families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Marinovec Zelinski in Sveti Ivan Zelina every fifth inhabitant had the family name Bartolome.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Bartolome live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Obrez Zelinski (10) and Marinovec Zelinski (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.