Meaning not yet researched.
Babette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #786 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #786 in 1961; #15,293 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Babette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,293 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #786.
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Babette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #786 in 1961 · most girls in one year: 178 (1961).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Babette, making it the 15,293rd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #786, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 178. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,259 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Babette in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 3,287 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,177 babies named Babette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15 US girls were named Babette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Barbette, Babbette and Babetta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Barbette (335), Babbette (126), Babetta (98), Babbett (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Babette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,293 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,552 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,616 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,388 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,520 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,643 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,608 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,661 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,188 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,582 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,990 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,417 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,664 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,623 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,467 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,234 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,913 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,996 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,918 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,377 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1968 | 75 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1967 | 94 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1966 | 94 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1965 | 108 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1964 | 151 | #847 | — | — |
| 1963 | 127 | #938 | — | — |
| 1962 | 162 | #823 | — | — |
| 1961 | 178 | #786 | 5 | #4,106 |
| 1960 | 132 | #926 | — | — |
| 1959 | 94 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1957 | 74 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1956 | 106 | #988 | — | — |
| 1955 | 65 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1954 | 92 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1953 | 66 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1952 | 66 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1951 | 59 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,350 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).