Bautista
Meaning
baptist (Spanish form of Baptiste), from Greek bapto, 'to dip'
The story
Bautista is the Spanish form of Baptiste, and Behind the Name's chain runs straight to the word itself: baptist, from Greek bapto, to dip, a name the source says is usually given in honour of Saint John the Baptist. Spain marks its name day on June 24. The reason this page exists is demand we could see: visitors in seven different sessions typed Bautista into our engine before we carried it, and the international numbers explain why. Behind the Name ranks it 2nd in all of Argentina in 2021 and 15th in Uruguay in 2022, against a Spanish row that last shows 364th in the 1950s: a name that crossed the Atlantic and grew on the far side. The American record has yet to show five in a single year, so Bautista arrives here at the top of one country's charts and still almost private in another.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Bautista has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Bautista deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Bautista truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Bautista fits with your family’s names and surname.
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