Babette

Where Babette comes from

The dictionaries list Babette as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1850
    Babette von Bülow born
    German writer
  2. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,332 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1950
    Babette Cole born
    English children's writer and illustrator
  4. 1961
    Peak, #785
    178 babies named Babette — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,267.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Babette Cole · English children's writer and illustrator, 1950–2017
  • Babette von Bülow · German writer, 1850–1927
  • Babette van Veen · Dutch actress, singer and writer, born 1968
  • Babette Deutsch · American writer, 1895–1982
  • Babette Bardot · Swedish actress, born 1940

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.