Babington
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Babington or Bavington’, Somerset and Northumberland; from a place associated with Babba
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbæbɪŋtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babington is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Babington or Bavington’, Somerset and Northumberland; from a place associated with Babba.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Babington is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, in Somerset or from Bavington in Northumb. Both are named from OE Babbingtun ‘settlement (OE tun) associ¬ ated with Babba (see Babb). The latter was the original home of the family of the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59). Dims.: Fr.: Bachelet, Bachelin, Bachelot. Pej.: Fr.: Bachelard.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A surname from Old English.
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)
- Anthony Babingtonb. 1561GBEnglish nobleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England (1561-1586)
- Thomas Babingtonb. 1682GB(1682-1745)
- William Babingtonb. 1756GBphysician and mineralogist (1756-1833)
- Thomas Babingtonb. 1758GBBritish politician ( 1758 – 1837)
- Benjamin Guy Babingtonb. 1794GBBritish doctor and epidemiologist
- Cardale Babingtonb. 1808GBEnglish botanist and archaeologist (1808-1895)
- Churchill Babingtonb. 1821GBEnglish scholar, archaeologist and naturalist (1821-1889)
- Charlie Babingtonb. 1895USAmerican baseball player
- Carlos Babingtonb. 1949ARArgentine footballer
- Walker Babingtonb. 2000USAmerican stunt performer, actor, and performance artist
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Babington mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Babington or Bavington’, Somerset and Northumberland; from a place associated with Babba. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Babington?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbæbɪŋtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Babington have the most bearers?
- Babington is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Babington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.