Baiba

Girls' name

Form of Barbara

Baiba has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1953, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Baiba, 1953

1 in 770,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baiba: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Barbara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Baiba means

Baiba is a form of Barbara.

Origin, language, and formation

Baiba is used in Latvian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Baiba between 1953 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1953; its best national rank was #5,720 in 1953.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Baiba?

Baiba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1953: 1 in 770,000; 5 of 3,852,460 births
Among girls only: 1 in 376,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1953: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 534,066 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Baiba 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 1953 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 534,066 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baiba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baibas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baiba was born before 1953 — so the typical Baiba is around 72 today.

Median birth year: 1953; About 72 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Baiba 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 1953 (5)
Years since peak: 72; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,720; 1953

Spellings of Baiba

Baiba is not the most common spelling — Laila is, with 13.6% against Baiba's <0.01%.

Laila13.6%43,484
Kaia6.5%20,909
Maia5.7%18,200
Bria5.3%16,815
Kaila4.5%14,556
Aida4.3%13,777
Raina3.9%12,453
Jaida3.0%9,659

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.

Baiba around the world

Where Baiba 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.

South Australia
1950–1951
#423
in 1951

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Baiba 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: #5,720; 1953
Peak year: 1953; 5 that year
First recorded: 1953
Last recorded: 1953
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Baiba

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

Bailye Baille Baia Baile Baiya Atiba Leiba Zaiba Baislee Baisha Bailor Taliba Bailly Tayiba Bai Bailiegh Bailani Bailasan Baillee Iba Neiba Baisley Fariba Siba

Sibling names for Baiba

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

Louann Nanci Randy Marita Jacalyn Oralia Luanne Kathlyn

For a brother

Jacky Ike Dannie Val Stanton Stanford Lindsey Jerrold

Explore around Baiba

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