Last name origins & meanings:
- Japanese: from a word meaning ‘horse-riding ground’, ‘race
track’; a common place name. The surname is found mostly in west
central Japan. One Baba family in Kai (now Yamanashi prefecture) were
samurai, vassals of the Takeda family.
- Czech, Slovak,
Polish, and Hungarian: from the Slavic word baba ‘old woman’,
‘grandmother’, ‘witch’, hence an unflattering nickname for a man
thought to resemble an old woman. In Czech baba can also mean
‘coward’.
- Hungarian (Bába): habitational
name from one of many places called Bába, in Abaúj, Borsod,
Somogy, and Vas counties of Hungary, and Közép-Szolnok county,
now in Romania.
- Arabic (Bābā): from a
diminutive of Abū ‘father’.
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