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I don’t really have anything nice to say, so I’m not going to share my honest opinions.

I feel like if I randomly encountered it in use, I wouldn't pay any special attention; it's like...Digby or Sherwood or Wentworth, which seem only a small degree weirder than Colby or Wendell. I could call someone those and not care.

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I like it more than Bart, Bartholomew, Higsby, Stanley but less than Bard, Barnaby, Bertram, Starling. Whatever that tells you.

This message was edited 6/15/2022, 3:43 PM

It sounds like the name of a plump, insipid, yes-man-type manservant to a rich jerk.

Reminds me of Melville ‘s Bartleby the Scrivner, and that’s a depressing character.

Not for a real human

I'd prefer not.

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(imo the name is forever bound to Melville's character Bartleby, the Scrivener and all uses of it would seem to refer to that)

I love the sound of it, in. a certain way, but I'd never be able to take it seriously. Good for a fictional character.

Lead character in movie Accepted, named for comic effect.

I don't care for it. It's too quirky and a bit bizarre for my taste. It reminds me of a character in the last book series that I've read, called "The Tunnels" (much more interesting than the title might suggest, I promise you. Very intense.) Anyway, Bartleby was the name of an abnormally large sphinx-related cat who often went by 'Bart'
That's what I think of right away. Mostly because it's my first and only association that I have with the name. I don't know if it's because of that, but it doesn't seem like a very usual name for a human. Maybe unless it was a whimsical character set in a fantasy storyline or something.

This message was edited 6/12/2022, 6:35 PM

No thanks.

I love it, but wouldn't use it. Barnaby or Barnabas are my faves

My first thought is a children’s storybook character Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent.

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I also have a vague recollection of Bartleby being a very wealthy family hit by the financial crash in an episode of the tv series Cold Case.

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Sounds like part of the last name first name trend but in a public school boy setting where Bartleby is friends with Guildford, Ambrose and Farquharson

This message was edited 6/12/2022, 1:42 AM

More complicated than Barnaby, which I prefer. Bartleby has an uncomfortable echo of barter in it!

Sounds like a portly fellow (with one impressive mustache!) from a medieval classic.

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Amusing, but not usable today.