Baby
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beɪbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baby is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 22K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Baby itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bebi in ID Indonesia, GY Guyana, VN Vietnam and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baby 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #661 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Baby | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | listed | Bebi | 54 |
| US United States | — | 15,306 | 1 in 22K | 8.1K | Baby | 226 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Bebi | 15 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Bebi | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Baby | 14 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Baby | 26 |
| GY Guyana | #279 | 430as Bebi | 1 in 1.7K | 430 | Bebi | 5 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)
Baby is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, table soccer, table football
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a baby (very young human)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, baby (term of endearment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, child, baby, neonate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, A baby, an infant.
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)
- Philippe Baby Casgrainb. 1826CACanadian politician (1826-1917)
- Joseph Philippe Baby Casgrainb. 1856CACanadian politician (1856-1939)
- Baby Islamb. 1927INIndian & Bangladeshi cinematographer & film director
- Baby Lowb. 1930SGbadminton player
- Baby LeRoyb. 1932USactor
- Baby Salahuddinb. 1940PKbadminton player
- Baby Bátizb. 1949MXMexican singer
- Baby Halderb. 1973INIndian author (born 1973)
- Baby NormanUSAmerican actress
- Baby GFRFrench singer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.1K | #1,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.2K | #1,875 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 43 | #551 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Baby mean, and where does it come from?
- A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Baby a male or female name?
- Baby is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Baby have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Baby in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baby.
- How do you pronounce Baby?
- A machine transcription gives /beɪbi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Baby?
- In the etymology graph, Babe is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Baby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,306 people named Baby in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Baby compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Baby is the 661st most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Baby?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babyThe 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, “Baby” — the 661st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.