Babby

Girls' name

Strange, foreign, through Barbara

Babby has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1959. 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 1960, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Babby, 1962

1 in 807,000

Babby over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Babby: meaning, origin, and history

Strange, foreign, through Barbara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Babby means

Babby belongs to the name family reached through Babby → Barbara. Its meaning is “strange, foreign”.

Origin, language, and formation

Babby is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Babby between 1959 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1960; its best national rank was #3,220 in 1960.

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.

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How common is Babby?

Babby had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962: 1 in 807,000; 5 of 4,035,213 births
Among girls only: 1 in 393,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1962: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 559,400 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Babby sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1962 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 559,400 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Babby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Babbys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Babby was born before 1960 — so the typical Babby is around 65 today.

Median birth year: 1960; About 65 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 85.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 34; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 85.3% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Babby 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1960 (15)
Years since peak: 65; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 94.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,220; 1960

Spellings of Babby

Babby is not the most common spelling — Abby is, with 35.8% against Babby's 0.02%.

Abby35.8%61,855
Bobbi14.0%24,216
Libby10.4%17,966
Abbey10.1%17,509
Debby5.6%9,697
Bobby5.6%9,675
Darby4.8%8,338
Bambi3.0%5,261

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.

Babby by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,220; 1960
Peak year: 1960; 15 that year
First recorded: 1959
Last recorded: 1962
All-time count: 34
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Babby

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

Babie Babbi Babbie Babita Ebby Babetta Tabby Babs Robby Babe Babara Babbett Babbette Gabby Rubby Ibby Babette Bobby Libby Debby Abby

Sibling names for Babby

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

For a sister

Jannette Joellen Venita Gaye Teressa Maryjo Renita Jeanetta

For a brother

Lindsay Rod Curtiss Dino Mitch Randell Russ Art

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