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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Italian: probably from a diminutive of the personal name, Babbo, of Germanic origin.
  2. Northwestern Italian: nickname from baba ‘gossip’, ‘talkative person’, ‘babbler’, or alternatively, possibly from a diminutive of the personal name Barnaba. The name is particularly common in Ravenna.
  3. Altered spelling of French Babineau.