Baptista

Baptista is the 8,458th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,747 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 79,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,747
Rank: 8,458th
How common: 1 in 79,800
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Romance languages, Spanish, Portuguese

From roa Baptista (Spanish Baptista and Portuguese Baptista).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Baptista described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 52.0%
Hispanic or Latino 17.6%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Baptista

Júlio Baptista (born 1981)Brazilian footballer
Nelsinho Baptista (born 1950)Brazilian association football player and manager
Alba Baptista (born 1997)Portuguese actress
Mariano Baptista (1832–1907)President of Bolivia
Juan A. Baptista (born 1976)Venezuelan actor and model
Alexandre Baptista (1942–2024)Portuguese footballer
António Maria Baptista (1863–1920)Portuguese politician

People named Baptista with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Baptista

Baptiste

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.