Given name & surname
Baldassare
“baal protect the king”
Baldassare is a variant of Balthasar. One interpretation is “baal protect the king.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Baldassare is a variant of Balthasar. One interpretation is “baal protect the king.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Baldassare through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 104 as a first name in 2020; 299 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Baldassare’s family of names
Baldassare shares a linguistic root with Balthasar. Baldassare has a related form in Balthasar. In Italian usage, Baldassare has a conventional equivalent in the German form Balthasar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Baldassare
- Baldassare CastiglioneItalian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
- Baldassare GaluppiItalian composer (1706-1785)
- Baldassare PeruzziItalian painter (1481–1536)
- Baldassare LonghenaItalian architect, sculptor1596–1682
- Baldassare ReinaItalian Roman Catholic archbishopborn 1970
- Baldassare DonatoRenaissance Italian composer1530–1603
- Baldassare CroceItalian painter (1558-1628)
- Baldassare EstenseItalian painter and medalist1432–1504
- Baldassarre LanciItalian architect and engineer (1510-1571)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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