Baptista

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Gender: MasculineUsages: Louisiana Creole (Archaic)Meaning: Louisiana Spanish form of Baptiste.https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Louisiana/Jean-Baptista-Denais_4dlls4
http://www.mylhcv.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Register-4-1777-1783-of-color-June-2017.pdf(Information from name #316753 originally submitted by an anonymous user)
― Anonymous User  7/4/2021
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Also Gascon, Provençal and Languedocian: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=290 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
― Anonymous User  3/9/2021
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Baptista is also a Catalan name.
― paula_vm  11/28/2020
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More like barista. Definitely prefer Baptiste.
― nylonpanda  2/24/2020
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Baptista Minola is a character in Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew. He's Katherine (the shrew) and Bianca's father.
― ALOF10  9/14/2011
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The "ista" ending makes me think that this would make a good feminine name - maybe not as the first name, but perhaps in the middle slot. It's certainly unusual. I'd pronounce it "bap-TEEST-ah".
― Sophannagh  9/7/2009
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