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Throughout the world, Baptista (Baptiste
, Baptista
, Baptist
) is a common primarily masculine, but very infrequently girly forename. The first name Baptista is habitual in France, where it is quite a common masculine name, Mauritius, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, and Belgium, where it is quite a rare male name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in France, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ethiopia. More frequently, Baptista is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
|---|---|
| Baptiste | Brazil, Rwanda, France, Haiti, United States |
| Baptista | Portugal, Brazil, Angola, France, United States |
| Baptist | Portugal, Brazil, Rwanda, France, United States |
| Баптиста | Russia |
Baptista is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Baptista , the operatic character in the opera Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (Goetz); Baptista Minola , character in The Taming of the Shrew; Baptiste Ladébauche ; Baptiste , the operatic character in the opera Le maçon (Auber) and Baptiste Lépine , the operatic character in the opera Louis Riel by Harry Somers.