Baby

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Malayalam ബേബി (bēbi), a surname typically found in Kerala.
• Borrowed from French Baby.

Baby (plural Babys)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Baby is the 36426^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 614 individuals. Baby is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (71.01%) and White (19.54%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Baby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 78.

From baby. Also from an error in birth registration. When the parent has not decided on a name of the child, the child is often listed as baby + surname.

Baby

1. a female given name
2. (rare) a male given name

Mid-19th-century borrowing from English baby. The use as a term of endearment is a later borrowing from late-20th-century pop culture; it remains far commoner in pop music than in real life.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːbi/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɪ̯bi/ (rather unusual for the sense “infant”, but often in the slang sense)

Baby n (strong, genitive Babys, plural Babys or (now proscribed) Babies, diminutive Babychen n or Babylein n)

1. baby (infant)

   Synonyms: Säugling, Bébé

2. (music or slang) baby (term of endearment for a lover)

• → Lower Sorbian: baby
• → Upper Sorbian: baby

• “Baby” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Baby” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Baby” in Duden online
• Baby on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de