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Around the globe, باتيستا (Battista , Baptista , Batista ) is a common primarily boy's, but very infrequently girly forename. The given name باتيستا is characteristic of Italy, where it is quite a common masculine name, Luxembourg, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and Guinea-Bissau, where it is quite a rare boy's name. In absolute terms, it is the most numerous in Italy, Angola, and Brazil. Much more prevalently, باتيستا is the last name as well as the forename.
باتيستا is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Baptista Minola , character in The Taming of the Shrew and Baptista , the operatic character in the opera Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (Goetz).