Babs

Where Babs comes from

From the clipping of Barbara + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Babs
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1927
    First appearance
    #4,286 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #2,540
    11 babies named Babs — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.