Last name origins & meanings:
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name Baba (babe or bobe
in Yiddish), from Slavic baba ‘grandmother’, ‘old woman’. This name
was sometimes given to a tenderly guarded or seriously sick
child.
- German: recorded in Eastphalia as a surname since the 15th
century but of uncertain origin. In eastern areas of Germany the
Sorbian (Slavic) word baba ‘old woman’ (see 1) may be involved;
in the south perhaps a development from baby talk like Babo. Compare
Baab
- Perhaps also an Americanized form of Baab,
Baba, or some similar name.
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