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Babak

Boys' name

Little father

Babak has been given to 287 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Babak, 2004

1 in 764,000

Babak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Babak: meaning, origin, and history

Little father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Babak means

Babak means “little father”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Babak is used in Persian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bɒː.ˈbæk/ for Babak.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 287 boys were recorded with the name Babak between 1968 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1987; its best national rank was #2,472 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Babak?

Babak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Babak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Babak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Babaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Babak was born before 1983 — so the typical Babak is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (144).

Is Babak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (22)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,472
1987

Spellings of Babak

Babak is not the most common spelling — Barak is, with 36.4% against Babak's 11.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Babak is used

Across 1910–2025, Babak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 335,244 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Babak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Babak around the world

Where Babak ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Babak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,472
1987
Peak year
1987
22 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
287
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Babak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Babak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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