Bautista

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bautista is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 63rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 455◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 562
  • PHPhilippines1 in 658

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈113K ●

across 15 countries

#663 ●

of 21M surnames

Sources
367 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bautista is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#63805,680738K rec.—7.6KBautista210
PH Philippines#19355,910269K rec.——Bautista154
PE Peru#173187,409235K rec.——Bautista87
US United States—60,264115K rec.1 in 5.5K60KBautista367
CO Colombia#22241,82623K rec.—24Bautista148
VE Venezuela#39332,466123K rec.—691Bautista58
HN Honduras#7526,12530K rec.——Bautista42
ES Spain#20125,87448K rec.1 in 1.9K26KBautista163
EC Ecuador#47615,546△515 rec.1 in 1.1K16KBautista47
AR Argentina#5359,888399K rec.1 in 4.6K9.9KBautista99
BR Brazil—7484.3K rec.1 in 283K748Bautista60
CA Canada—1684.7K rec.—1Bautista87

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Languages●

  • Spanish1.7M70%
  • English493K20%
  • Portuguese32K1%
  • Catalan26K1%
  • Indonesian19K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,707,08070%
English493,29320%
Portuguese32,1641%
Catalan25,8821%
Indonesian18,8681%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bautista is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname539K records spelled Bautista14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Ecuador, Australia

    Languages: English, Western Frisian

    Also written Bäütïstä, Bautistä, Baütista, Báútistá, Båüťîśťâ

  • Indonesian surname22K records spelled Bautista4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bäütïstä, Bąûtîstâ

  • Thai surname9.7K records spelled Bautista17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written เบาติสตา, โบทิสต้า, Bäütïstä, เบาติสต้า, โบทสตา

  • German surname5.6K records spelled Bautista3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Switzerland

    Also written Bäutïstä, Baeutïstae

  • Hindi surname5.4K records spelled Bautista3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bàutista

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bautista is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Religious name commemorating John the Baptist.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, baptist (person who baptizes)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • blessed; Baruch

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • El que bautiza

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Spanish form of BAPTISTE .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030040019502000360 · 1995

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Bautista in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1901–2024
Yearrecords
19015
19024
19032
19045
19051
19065
19077
190812
19098
191014
19118
191215
19134
191412
191515
191622
191716
191816
191918
192020
192116
192227
192318
192428
192531
192622
192731
192830
192933
193035
193131
193226
193338
193426
193535
193646
193732
193830
193944
194044
194139
194235
194360
194444
194547
194646
194771
194863
194971
195063
195169
195258
195386
195467
195575
195677
195795
195891
1959100
196087
196189
1962100
1963110
1964115
1965141
1966192
1967130
1968112
1969130
1970112
1971114
1972153
1973146
1974165
1975145
1976178
1977199
1978207
1979196
1980218
1981207
1982203
1983244
1984237
1985271
1986217
1987237
1988209
1989218
1990208
1991185
1992211
1993223
1994242
1995360
1996208
1997214
1998292
1999273
2000283
2001192
2002243
2003251
2004190
2005228
2006220
2007265
2008292
2009295
2010277
2011318
2012284
2013259
2014232
2015244
2016232
2017242
2018214
2019228
2020181
2021174
2022212
2023228
2024175

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Nicolás Monardes, b. 1508Julián Bautista, b. 1901Aurora Bautista, b. 1922Conchita Bautista, b. 1936Daniel Bautista Rocha, b. 1952Dave Bautista, b. 1969Adolfo Bautista, b. 1979José Bautista, b. 1980Christian Bautista, b. 1981Roberto Bautista Agut, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Bautista
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201060K#558
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202060K#554
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200038K#830
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—26K#203
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—26K#203
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202416K#281
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—9.9K—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—7.6K#47
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20246.9K#7
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20152.8K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20152.8K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.5K#656

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 642 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bautista?
We estimate roughly 113 thousand people bear Bautista (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Bautista have the most bearers?
Bautista is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled bautista.
How common is Bautista compared with other names?
In Mexico, Bautista is the 63rd most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Bautista mean?
Recorded meaning: From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bautista” — the 63rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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