Babe — unisex name

What the Data Says About Babe

The Social Security Administration has registered 383 babies named Babe between 1890 and 1947, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Babe currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1947. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Babe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 345 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Babe performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Babe shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Babe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Babe 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 383 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.