Babb
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Old English personal name Babba
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ˈbæb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 13K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
12,794 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Old English personal name Babba.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Babb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,794 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Babb | 43 |
| GY Guyana | 196 | 1 in 3.8K | 196 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 126 | 1 in 40K | 126 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 73 | 1 in 237K | 73 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 9 | 1 in 13K | 9 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 5 | 1 in 20K | 5 | — | — |
12,794 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Babb is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pet-form of Barbara or nickname from babe ‘infant, young child’; first attested Alwinus, Richard Babbe 1198 FF (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Alwinus, Richard Babbe 1198 FF (Sf), 1230 P (D); Ralph, Walter le Babb(e) 1199 MemR (W), 1327 SRSx. A pet-form of Barbara. cf. Margery Babel, Nicholas Babelot 1279 RH (C) and BABOT. Le Babbe is a nickname from babe (c1230 MED) ‘infant, young child’.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Icelandic, used in the phrase "það er komið babb í bátinn" ("a problem has come up")
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Bianca Babbb. 1856US1856–1950, pioneer and captive of Native Americans
- Charlie Babbb. 1873USAmerican baseball player (1873-1954)
- Kroger Babbb. 1906USAmerican film and TV producer (1906–1980)
- Sanora Babbb. 1907USΑmerican writer (1907-2005)
- Gene Babbb. 1934USAmerican football player (1934-2018)
- Glenn Babbb. 1943ZASouth African politician
- Phil Babbb. 1970IEIrish footballer
- Sergio Babbb. 1982NLDutch footballer
- Chris Babbb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Nick Weiler-Babbb. 1995USAmerican basketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,824 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 196 | #429 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 126 | #1,281 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 73 | #24,189 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,712 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #214 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 5 | #257 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Babb mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old English personal name Babba. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Babb?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbæb/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Babb have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Babb, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babb.
- Where is Babb most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Babb is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Babb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,794 people named Babb in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babbThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Babb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.