Baba — boys' name
45 babies named Baba in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Baba was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Baba in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Baba
The Social Security Administration has registered 45 babies named Baba between 2001 and 2022, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Baba currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Baba performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Baba shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Baba in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 45 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Baba at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Baba popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2001
- Peak year (2017)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
45 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 7 births in a single year.
Baba by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 18 births that decade — 40% of Baba's all-time total
Baba decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Runner-up 17 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Baba's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2001–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.