Baby

Where Baby comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Baby.

  • Vowel-ended
Baby through the years
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #4,168 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1932
    Baby LeRoy born
    actor
  3. 1973
    Baby Halder born
    Indian author
  4. 1994
    Peak, #524
    373 babies named Baby, the most in any year.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #945.
  6. 2025
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Baby Halder · Indian author, born 1973
  • Baby LeRoy · actor, 1932–2001
  • Baby Etchecopar · Argentinian actor, radio and TV presenter, born 1953
  • Baby Islam · Indian & Bangladeshi cinematographer & film director, 1927–2010
  • Baby Bátiz · Mexican singer, born 1949

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.