Bautista
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bauˈtista/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Bautista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 350
- MXMexico≈1 in 400
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #567 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 406 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bautista
- Spanish:/bauˈtista/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Greek Baptistes, ‘one who baptizes’, title of Saint John the Baptist.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bautista is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #63 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 396 | 7.6K | Bautista | 226 |
| PH Philippines | #23 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 354 | — | Bautista | 165 |
| US United States | — | 60,264 | 1 in 5.5K | 60K | Bautista | 406 |
| CO Colombia | #221 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 24 | Bautista | 155 |
| PE Peru | #125 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 737 | — | Bautista | 98 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #44 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 325 | — | Bautista | 82 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Bautista | 43 |
| HN Honduras | #76 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | — | 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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)- Dave Bautistab. 1969USAmerican actor and former professional wrestler (born 1969)
- José Bautistab. 1980DODominican Republic baseball player
- 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)57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
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?
- In Spanish /bauˈtista/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bautista?
- Mondonomo estimates about 330 thousand people named Bautista in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bautista. After it come Philippines, United States, Colombia and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 Mexico, Bautista is the 63rd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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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” — ranked 47th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.