Last name origins & meanings:
- French: from a pet name derived from the personal name
Babylas; it was the name of patriarch of Antioch who was
beatified in the 3rd century.
- Jewish (from Belarus): metronymic
from the personal name Babe.
- Jewish (from Belarus): habitational name from Babino, a village in Belarus.
- Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish (Babyn): metronymic or
patronymic from baba ‘grandmother’, ‘old woman’, either meaning
son of an old woman or a nickname denoting a fussy man.
- Serbian: nickname from baba ‘grandmother’ or babo ‘father’.
- A bearer of the name Babin from the Poitou region of France was
documented in Montreal in 1691, with the secondary surname Lacroix. A
secondary surname of Lasource is documented with a family from the
Maine region.
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