First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
German: from a variant of Babo, a name derived from baby talk (like English Papa), or a short form of the Germanic personal name Badubrecht, related to Old Saxon beada ‘battle’ + berht ‘bright’.