Babe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A baby or infant; a very young human or animal
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beɪb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 477K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
697 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Babe, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Babe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 697 | 1 in 477K | 465 | Babe | 189 |
| PH Philippines | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Babe | 35 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 189 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Babe | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 965K | 24 | Babe | 47 |
| SG Singapore | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Babe | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Babe | 23 |
697 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Babe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, nddla
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Irish, An Anglo-Norman name ( le Babbe ), gaelicized as Báib, formerly prominent in Co. Louth, now rare
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Russian, Mitia Babe, peasant of the Bologoe parish. 1495.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Slovak, dative/locative singular of baba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, dangle, hang loosely
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Babe Adamsb. 1882USbaseball player (1882-1968)
- Babe Ruthb. 1895USAmerican baseball player (1895–1948)
- Babe Londonb. 1901USactress (1901-1980)
- Babe Hermanb. 1903USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Babe Siebertb. 1904CACanadian ice hockey player (1904-1939)
- Babe Stappb. 1904USAmerican racing driver (1904-1980)
- Barbara Cushingb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican editor and socialite (1915-1978)
- Babe Prattb. 1916CACanadian ice hockey player
- Babe Parillib. 1930USAmerican football player (1930-2017)
- Babe Laufenbergb. 1959USAmerican football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 465 | #48,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 455 | #46,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 424 | #47,120 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 189 | #2,217 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Babe?
- In the etymology graph, Bobbie, Baby and Bobbi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Babe mean, and where does it come from?
- A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Babe?
- A machine transcription gives /beɪb/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Babe a male or female name?
- Babe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Babe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 697 people named Babe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babe.
- How common is the name Babe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 697 people named Babe in 2020, about 1 in 477 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Babe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.