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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Babe

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

383

peak year 1915

More common than

81%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1915
19 births
Best rank
#1,311
in 1905
First recorded
1890
#1,350 that year
Last recorded
1947
no later published record
Average birth year
1919
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
39 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191519#1,745Peak
  2. 192719#2,029
  3. 191717#2,005
  4. 192116#2,295
  5. 192216#2,301

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,311 in 1905 · peak births 19 in 1915

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 47% boys■ 53% girls

345 boys · 383 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Babe has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.