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Baby

Baby: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“infant”
Origin
English
Say it
BAY-bee · 2 syllables
Used for
Both (49% girls, 51% boys since 1880)

An English vocabulary word used only occasionally as a given name or nickname. It is not a traditional personal name etymologically.

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How popular is Baby?

20246.3 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Baby in 202421

Peak year1994

Total US babies since 188012,403

Baby is rising: use over the last five years is 1.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Baby

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Averyruler of elves · English
  • Riverriver · English
  • Sawyerwoodcutter · English
  • TatumTata's homestead · English
  • EmersonEmery's son · English
  • Haydenhay valley · English
  • Sagewise one; sage plant · English
  • Remingtonsettlement by the streambank · English

Baby questions

What does the name Baby mean?

Baby means "infant". It comes from English. An English vocabulary word used only occasionally as a given name or nickname. It is not a traditional personal name etymologically.

Is Baby a boy or girl name?

Baby is used for both: about 49% of US babies named Baby since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Baby?

21 US babies were named Baby in 2024. Its peak year was 1994.

How do you pronounce Baby?

Baby is usually pronounced BAY-bee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.