Batiste Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Genealogists group Batiste with Batista. The name is generally explained as “From John the Baptist”.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Batista and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Batiste and Batista

Before spelling was fixed, Batista was also written Batiste. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.

The 2010 census count for Batiste in the United States was 6,640, good for rank 5,253. Spain's INE counts 388 residents with Batiste as first surname and 384 with it as second. Batiste sounds close to Bautista, so it can help to search both. Want more than a summary? See the Batiste family name pack.