Baby

Where Baby comes from

Baby hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #4,168 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.