First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
German: from Middle High German bābes(t) (modern German Papst) ‘pope’, a nickname for a self-important person, one who believed in the infallibility of his own opinions.