Baba
Baba was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,817 among boys’ names; 52 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baba?
#9,817 among boys’ names, 2025
Baba entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,817 in 2025.
7 babies in 2017, the peak
Baba peaked in 2017, when 7 boys were given it, #9,798 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,817 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,567 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,230 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,357 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,798 | 3.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,946 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,224 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,693 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,357 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Baba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baba has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baba, and how old are they?
An estimated 51 Americans named Baba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 616 people named Baba (106 women and girls, 510 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Baba rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,482 babies since 1880, Baba is the second most given (3.5% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baba
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baba and names like it
- Compare Baba and BaoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBaba peaked in 2017.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Baba.
- Names starting with BMost given first.