Baby
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in England and Wales.
Baby by the numbers
In 2025, 25 babies in England and Wales were named Baby. In the US, 24 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 373 babies in 1994, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Baby
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Baby. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Bay5 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Baby
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