Given name & surname
Baptiste
“baptist”
Baptiste is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “baptist.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “baptist.”
Where it comes from
Baptiste is a variant of Baptist. An origin associated with Baptist is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Baptiste through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 87
- 87 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 10 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 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 293 as a first name in 2020; 9,375 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.
Baptiste’s family of names
In French usage, Baptiste has a diminutive in BAPT. Baptiste shares a linguistic root with Bautista. Baptiste has a related form in Baptist.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Baptiste has relatives in 4 languages.
6 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Baptiste
- Baptiste SantamariaFrench soccer playerborn 1995
- Baptiste AddisFrench archerborn 2006
- Baptiste GiabiconiFrench singer and modelborn 1989
- Baptiste PlanckaertBelgian cyclistborn 1988
- Baptiste AloéFrench footballerborn 1994
- Baptiste GuillaumeBelgian footballerborn 1995
- Baptiste GrosFrench cross-country skierborn 1990
- Baptiste Reynetfootballerborn 1990
- Baptiste ThieryFrench athleteborn 2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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