Baby name
CLASSIC
🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇨🇦 Baptiste
/bap · TEEST/
Meaning
“The baptizer”
French name from Late Latin Baptista, meaning the baptizer; the name honors John the Baptist and is one of the most persistently popular French masculine names, often used as a compound with Jean.
Nicknames
bap
Vibe
elegant
How it ages.
Enduring in France; the religious root anchors it across generations without feeling pious.
The cultural moment.
Consistently in the French top 20 for decades; Jean-Baptiste remains a compound classic.