Baptista : 1: Portuguese and Spanish: from the personal name Baptista ‘baptist’ derived from the distinguishing epithet of Saint John the Baptist (see Baptiste).2: Americanized form of Italian Battista a cognate of 1 above.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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