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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BAPTISTE

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(origin: Greek.) B??, a baptizer, the title of St. John.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

French and English: from a medieval personal name, derived from the distinguishing epithet of St. John the Baptist, who baptized people, including Jesus Christ, in the river Jordan (Mark 1:9), and was later beheaded by Herod. The name is from Latin Baptista (Greek baptistes, a derivative of the verb baptizein ‘to dip in liquid’, ‘to baptize’).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)