Last name origins & meanings:
- Italian: probably from a diminutive of the personal name,
Babbo, of Germanic origin.
- 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.
- Altered spelling of French Babineau.
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