Baby
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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.
Baby for girls#10223 US
Baby is rarely seen as a given name — or even nickname — these days, although it did rank in the Top 1000 from 1989 to 2003. These instances can be accounted for in two ways. Firstly, infants whose birth certificates are not filled out on time are given generic placeholders for registration, such as Infant, Unknown, or Baby. But more influential during this decade was the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, starring Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman. It's the origin of the famed line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Model Jessica Hart named her daughter Baby-Rae in November of 2020, in homage to the film. In an interview with People, she said, "I first heard it in the movie Dirty Dancing and always thought I'd love to name my daughter Baby."
Pronounced BAY-bee.
As of October 2026, Baby ranked #6177 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #524 in 1994.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | #4,878 | 28 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,446 | 32 | #4,406 | 32 |
| 2018 | #3,113 | 37 | #4,471 | 31 |
| 2019 | #3,059 | 39 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #3,737 | 28 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #3,365 | 34 | #4,028 | 36 |
| 2022 | #2,922 | 43 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,007 | 27 | #4,760 | 28 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Baby for girls
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Baby on lists
Famous Babys
- BabyBoy
Indian film director
- Baby Face Nelson (born Lester Joseph Gillis)Boy
American bank robber
- David "Baby" CortezBoy
American pop singer
- Alberto "Baby" ArizmendiBoy
Mexican boxer
- Virgilio "Baby" A. DalupanBoy
Filipino basketball player
- Warren "Baby" DoddsBoy
American jazz drummer
- Buford Garfield "Baby" RayBoy
American NFL player
- Charles Henry "Baby" TateBoy
American blues guitarist
- Baby HalderGirl
Indian author
- Baby Constance Irene Theresia HuwaeGirl
Indonesian actress and singer
- Baby SpiceGirl
stage name of Emma Bunton, English singer formerly of The Spice Girls
- BabyGirl
ring name of Shannon McNeill, American pro wrestler
- Baby do BrasilGirl
stage name of Bernadete Dinorah de Carvalho Cidade, Brazilian singer
- Justine "Baby" WashingtonGirl
American R&B singer
- BabyGirl
nickname of Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria
Baby in pop culture
- Miles "Baby"Boy
main character of the film "Baby Driver"
- BabyBoy
Ayla's adopted cave lion in Jean M. Auel's novel "Valley of the Horses"
- Baby SinclairBoy
character on TV's Dinosaurs
- BabyBoy
villain in the anime Dragon Ball GT
- Baby FireflyBoy
character in films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects
- BabyBoy
character in the Super Monkey Ball series of video games
- Frances "Baby" HousemanGirl
character in movie "Dirty Dancing" ("Nobody puts Baby in the corner")
- BabyGirl
a character in In the After by Demitria Lunetta
- Baby Michealina de la Vega FactorGirl
baby sister of Jane in "Jane the Virgin"
- Baby CarlyleGirl
character in the book series Gossip Girl: The Carlyles
- "BabyGirl
" song by Justin Bieber
- In "Lullabies for Little Criminals" by Heather O'Neill'sGirl
the 12,year,old main character says she can't wait to be a grown,up woman named Baby.
- Michael "Baby" WhitfieldGirl
character in the film "This Christmas"