Bautista
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bautista/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bautista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 357(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 372
- HNHonduras≈1 in 598
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #567 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 406 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 357 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bautista counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #23 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 357 | — | Bautista | 165 |
| US United States | — | 60,264 | 1 in 5.5K | 60K | Bautista | 406 |
| PE Peru | #125 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 761 | — | Bautista | 98 |
| CO Colombia | #221 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 24 | Bautista | 155 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #44 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Bautista | 82 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 665 | — | Bautista | 43 |
| HN Honduras | #76 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 598 | — | Bautista | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicolás Monardesb. 1508ESnot in their usual nameSpanish botanist (1508-1588)
- Julián Bautistab. 1901ESSpanish musician (1901–1961)
- Aurora Bautistab. 1922ESSpanish actress (1925-2012)
- Conchita Bautistab. 1936ESSpanish actress and singer
- Daniel Bautista Rochab. 1952MXathletics competitor
- Dave Bautistab. 1969USAmerican actor and former professional wrestler (born 1969)
- Adolfo Bautistab. 1979MXMexican association football player
- José Bautistab. 1980DODominican Republic baseball player
- Christian Bautistab. 1981PHFilipino singer
- Roberto Bautista Agutb. 1988ESSpanish tennis player (born 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 60K | #558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 60K | #554 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 38K | #830 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 24 | #92 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bautista mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Bautista?
- In the etymology graph, Baptista and Battista are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bautista?
- A machine transcription gives /bautista/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Bautista have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Bautista in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bautista.
- How common is the name Bautista?
- In the United States, the national register counted 60,264 people named Bautista in 2010, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bautista compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Bautista is the 23rd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bautistaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 23rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.