Bertels Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

The same name, two spellings: Bertels and Bartels. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “son of Bartel”. Bertels writes “e” in place of the “a” found in Bartels, a common scribal difference. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Bartel, Bartell and Bartholomäus.

In the 2010 US Census, 408 Americans gave Bertels as their last name (rank 51,066). It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Bertels, so the heraldry linked to Bartels is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Bertels report, with a museum-style coat of arms.