Baby
About Baby
Usually reserved as a term of endearment, Baby is likely used as a name when parents have yet to choose an official one but need to register their baby. For a girl, it can be considered a nickname for Barbara too.
Pronounced BAY-bee.
As of October 2026, Baby ranked #6177 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #524 in 1994.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,446 | 32 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | #3,113 | 37 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | #3,059 | 39 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | #3,737 | 28 | 16.2 |
| 2021 | #3,365 | 34 | 19.4 |
| 2022 | #2,922 | 43 | 24.6 |
| 2023 | #4,007 | 27 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Baby on lists
Famous Babys
- Baby
Indian film director
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American bank robber
- David "Baby" Cortez
American pop singer
- Alberto "Baby" Arizmendi
Mexican boxer
- Virgilio "Baby" A. Dalupan
Filipino basketball player
- Warren "Baby" Dodds
American jazz drummer
- Buford Garfield "Baby" Ray
American NFL player
- Charles Henry "Baby" Tate
American blues guitarist
Baby in pop culture
- Miles "Baby"
main character of the film "Baby Driver"
- Baby
Ayla's adopted cave lion in Jean M. Auel's novel "Valley of the Horses"
- Baby Sinclair
character on TV's Dinosaurs
- Baby
villain in the anime Dragon Ball GT
- Baby Firefly
character in films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects
- Baby
character in the Super Monkey Ball series of video games