When Jesse Baptista was born on 26 April 1910, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Manuel Baptista, was 31 and his mother, Maria De Jesus Teixeira, was 29. He died on 9 October 1987, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Manuel, Jose, Luis, Jorge, Alvaro, Augusto, Alfredo, Carlos, Eduardo, Fernando, Helio, Mauricio. Portuguese Joao, Joaquim.
Portuguese and Spanish: from the personal name Baptista ‘baptist’, derived from the distinguishing epithet of Saint John the Baptist (see Baptiste ).
Americanized form of Italian Battista , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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