The babe Surname

babe Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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babe Family Facts

Distribution of babe Families in the US in 1920

Number of babe families

9-16

4-8

1-3

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 8 - Messages: 22

Thread	Author	Replies
Gladys Babe - Flora, Indiana - Aug 30, 1920	PhillipPitzer69	1
Annie and Allen Babe, Northland New Zealand	glb2006	2
Louise Babe Menkel, missionary in Africa	Mary Cloutier	9
Babe 1780/1904 massachusetts/California	3fairies	1
carol babe	robi59	0
Laura May Babe	Leslie McLaughlin	1
Babes	Marsha Kline	0
birthmother	Lynn Phillips	0

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