Battista
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Baptist
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bəˈtistə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Battista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 80K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 94K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Baptist
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Battista 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 5 | Battista | 68 |
| US United States | 4,136 | 1 in 80K | 4.1K | Battista | 331 |
| AR Argentina | 1,629 | 1 in 28K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 52 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | Battista | 79 |
| AU Australia | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | Battista | 99 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Battista | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Battista | 3 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Battista 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.
In Italian, Dal greco, 'battezzatore'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do gr. baptistés; cognome de João Batista, depois patronímico
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Battisti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Colui che battezza
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian 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)- Giuseppe Battistab. 1610ITItalian poet
- Giovanni Battista Bussi de Pretisb. 1721ITCatholic cardinal
- Vincenzo Battistab. 1823ITcomposer, orchestra conductor (1823-1873)
- Emilio Battistab. 1903ITItalian politician
- Miriam Battistab. 1912USAmerican actress (1912-1980)
- Orlando Aloysius Battistab. 1917CACanadian chemist (1917–1995)
- Éric Battistab. 1933FROlympic athlete
- Gérard de Battistab. 1946FRFrench cinematographer
- Pierluigi Battistab. 1955ITItalian journalist, writer and television presenter
- Maurizio Battistab. 1957ITItalian comedian and actor
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #7,997 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,546 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 33 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Battista mean, and where does it come from?
- Baptist Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Battista?
- In the etymology graph, Bautista, Baptista and Giambattista are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Battista?
- A machine transcription gives /bəˈtistə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Battista have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Battista in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled battista.
- How common is the name Battista?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,136 people named Battista in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/battistaThe 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, “Battista”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.