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Battista

Boys' name

Short form of Giovanni Battista

Battista has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Battista, 1925

1 in 389,000

Battista over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Battista: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Giovanni Battista

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Battista means

Battista is a short form of Giovanni Battista.

Origin, language, and formation

Battista is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovanni Battista.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Battista is pronounced /batˈtis.ta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 boys were recorded with the name Battista between 1915 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1915; its best national rank was #3,113 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Battista?

Battista had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925
1 in 389,000
6 of 2,333,232 births
Among boys only
1 in 186,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1925
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
269,547 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Battista sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 269,547 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Battista. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Battistas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Battista was born before 1918 — so the typical Battista is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
69.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 69.0% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Battista rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (7)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,113
1915

Battista around the world

Where Battista ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1924–2019
    #6,888
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1958–1962
    #548
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Battista by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,113
1915
Peak year
1915
7 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Battista

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Battista

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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