Given name & surname · also Latin
Baltasar
“baal protect the king”
Baltasar is a variant of Balthasar. One interpretation is “baal protect the king.”
Original LatinBalthasar
Meaning & origin
What it means
Baltasar is a variant of Balthasar. One interpretation is “baal protect the king.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Baltasar comes from Latin, and ultimately from Akkadian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Faroese usage, Baltasar developed from Balthasar.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Baltasar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 56
- 56 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 7 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 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 347 as a first name in 2020; 120 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.
Baltasar’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Baltasar developed from the Latin form Balthasar. In Spanish usage, Baltasar has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Baltazar. In Spanish usage, Baltasar has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form BALDASSARRE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Baltasar has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Baltasar comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Baltasar
- Baltasar GraciánAragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)1604–1658
- Baltasar KormákurSpanish-Icelandic actor and film director (born 1966)
- Baltasar GarzónSpanish former judgeborn 1955
- Baltasar Brumpresident of Uruguay (1883–1933)
- Baltasar Hidalgo de CisnerosSpanish naval officer (1756–1829)1758–1829
- Baltasar AlbénizSpanish footballer (1905-1978)
- Baltasar LoboSpanish artist (1910–1993)
- Baltasar del AlcázarSpanish poet1530–1606
- Baltasar de Zúñiga, 1st Duke of AriónSpanish viceroy of New Spain (1658-1727)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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