# Baptiste (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/baptiste/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 87 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 87 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 55, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 5 | 2,855 |
| 1914 | 5 | 3,301 |
| 1915 | 5 | 3,871 |
| 1917 | 6 | 3,585 |
| 1921 | 5 | 4,382 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,409 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,370 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11,545 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,696 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12,484 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,751 |
| 2015 | 7 | 9,684 |
| 2018 | 10 | 7,685 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,242 |
| 2021 | 6 | 10,949 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2,636 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 6 | 2,538 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Baptiste

- Jean-Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (1870–1942)
- Baptiste Santamaria, French soccer player
- Baptiste Addis, French archer
- Jean-Baptiste Clément, French chansonnier, poet and writer (1836–1903)
- Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and model
- Baptiste Planckaert, Belgian cyclist
- Baptiste Aloé, French footballer
- Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, French noblewomen, mistress of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (1670-1736)
- Baptiste Guillaume, Belgian footballer
- Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin, French botanist (1796-1842)
- Baptiste Reynet, footballer
- Baptiste Gros, French cross-country skier

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.