Boy · Greek, through Latin
Baptiste
Say it: bah-TEEST
Meaning
From Greek baptistēs 'baptizer', after John the Baptist.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Long used in compounds like Jean-Baptiste, popular on its own in France since the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 76 babies given this name since 1913
- At its height in 1913, about 1 in 102,500 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Italian | Battista |
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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