# Jean-Baptiste (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jean-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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 11, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | 7,481 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,140 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |

## People named Jean-Baptiste

- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French naturalist (1744-1829)
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
- Jean-Baptiste Biot, French scientist (1774-1862)
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (1619–1683)
- Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (1767–1832)
- Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist (1800–1884)
- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and Catholic saint (1651–1719)
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer
- Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general, and architect (1753-1800)
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (1725 – 1805)
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French writer
- Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French explorer

## 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.