Babbette
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Babbette has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1963, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Babbette, 1969
1 in 695,000
Babbette over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Babbette?
Babbette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1969
- 1 in 695,000
- 5 of 3,475,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 337,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1969
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,756 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Babbette sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Babbette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Babbettes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Babbette was born before 1962 — so the typical Babbette is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 72.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 120
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (91).
Is Babbette 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 1963 (18)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Babbette
Babbette is not the most common spelling — Babette is, with 59.3% against Babbette's 2.3%.
Babbette by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Babbette
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Babbette
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.