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Bautista

Boys' name

Form of Baptiste

Bautista has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2011, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Bautista, 2024

1 in 669,000

Bautista 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bautista: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Baptiste

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bautista means

Bautista is a form of Baptiste.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bautista is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bau̯.ˈtis.ta/ for Bautista.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bautista → Baptiste. The family’s meaning is “Saint John the Baptist”, recorded in French with the source elements Jean-Baptiste.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Baptiste.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 boys were recorded with the name Bautista between 2001 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2011; its best national rank was #8,839 in 2011.

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 Bautista?

Bautista had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bautista 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bautista. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bautistas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bautista was born before 2011 — so the typical Bautista is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
65
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Bautista 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 2011 (8)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
5.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,839
2011

Bautista around the world

Where Bautista 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.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    1960–2008
    #4,839
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bautista 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
—
Best rank ever
#8,839
2011
Peak year
2011
8 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bautista

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

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Sibling names for Bautista

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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